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Smita Singh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why people play massively multiplayer online games
International Journal of e-Education e-Business e-Management and e-Learning, 2013Co-Authors: Lidia Suárez, C.f.w. Thio, Smita SinghAbstract:The current study investigated whether the problematic use of massively multiplayer online games (MMO) was associated with a particular Attachment Style. Moreover, we explored the possible motivations underlying MMO gaming, and the interdependence between motivations and Attachment Styles. The results showed that gamers with anxious and avoidant Attachment Styles suffered from problems associated with MMO gaming more than gamers with a Secure Attachment Style. Also, we found that all gamers played to immerse themselves into a fantastic word regardless of their Attachment Style.
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Attachment Styles, Motivations, and Problematic Use of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
2012Co-Authors: Lidia Suárez, C.f.w. Thio, Smita SinghAbstract:The current study examined the relationship between different adult Attachment Styles, motivations, and gaming problems associated with massively multiplayer online games. Firstly, we explored the association between Attachment Styles and problematic online gaming use. Secondly, we explored the different motivations that people with different Attachment Styles have to play massively multiplayer online games. Findings indicated that participants with anxious Attachment Style and avoidant Attachment Style showed more problematic online gaming issues than participants with Secure Attachment Style. Also, all the participants played mainly to immerse themselves into a virtual world, and not for social motivation or achievement motivation.
M. Morrens - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Psychology of Kink: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style with BDSM Interests
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2020Co-Authors: S. Brink, V. Coppens, W. Huys, M. MorrensAbstract:Introduction BDSM is a prevalent type of sexual expression that refers to Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), and Sadism and Masochism (SM). It has been speculated that a substantial percentage of BDSM practitioners have experienced (sexual) trauma in the past. Attachment Style is an additional factor resulting from early life dynamics that has been suggested to potentially influence BDSM interests. This study will investigate to what extent BDSM interests are related to trauma and Attachment Style, while differentiating between BDSM community practitioners and private practitioners. Methods A group of 771 BDSM practitioners and 518 non-practitioners from the general population completed a survey in 2017 assessing BDSM interests as well as the Brief Trauma Questionnaire to gauge traumatic events and the Relationships Questionnaire to assess Attachment Style. Results Community BDSM practitioners and private practitioners reported higher levels of physical abuse in adulthood but no significant differences emerged for other traumatic experiences including childhood physical abuse or unwanted sexual trauma. Surprisingly, BDSM practitioners had more Secure and at the same time more anxious-preoccupied Attachment Styles compared to non-practitioners. Besides, Secure Attachment Style was associated with dominance, whereas the anxious-avoidant Attachment Style was associated with submissiveness. Intensity of BDSM interest was predicted by Secure Attachment Style, gender, sexual orientation, and living area. Conclusions Thus, our findings do not support the hypothesis of BDSM being a maladaptive coping mechanism in response to early life dynamics. Policy Implications BDSM practices deserve perception as normal sexual practice free from stigmatization rather than deviant behavior.
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The Psychology of Kink: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style with BDSM Interests
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2020Co-Authors: S. Ten Brink, V. Coppens, W. Huys, M. MorrensAbstract:BDSM is a prevalent type of sexual expression that refers to Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), and Sadism and Masochism (SM). It has been speculated that a substantial percentage of BDSM practitioners have experienced (sexual) trauma in the past. Attachment Style is an additional factor resulting from early life dynamics that has been suggested to potentially influence BDSM interests. This study will investigate to what extent BDSM interests are related to trauma and Attachment Style, while differentiating between BDSM community practitioners and private practitioners. A group of 771 BDSM practitioners and 518 non-practitioners from the general population completed a survey in 2017 assessing BDSM interests as well as the Brief Trauma Questionnaire to gauge traumatic events and the Relationships Questionnaire to assess Attachment Style. Community BDSM practitioners and private practitioners reported higher levels of physical abuse in adulthood but no significant differences emerged for other traumatic experiences including childhood physical abuse or unwanted sexual trauma. Surprisingly, BDSM practitioners had more Secure and at the same time more anxious-preoccupied Attachment Styles compared to non-practitioners. Besides, Secure Attachment Style was associated with dominance, whereas the anxious-avoidant Attachment Style was associated with submissiveness. Intensity of BDSM interest was predicted by Secure Attachment Style, gender, sexual orientation, and living area. Thus, our findings do not support the hypothesis of BDSM being a maladaptive coping mechanism in response to early life dynamics. BDSM practices deserve perception as normal sexual practice free from stigmatization rather than deviant behavior.
Phillip R Shaver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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moving toward a Secure Attachment Style can repeated security priming help
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2008Co-Authors: Omri Gillath, Emre Selcuk, Phillip R ShaverAbstract:Despite the abundant literature on Attachment processes and the development of a Secure or inSecure Attachment orientation during childhood, it is still unclear whether adult Attachment Style can be changed through systematic interventions, and if so how the change process works. One way to learn more about such change is to create it, on a small scale, in the laboratory. It is already known that a person’s sense of security can be momentarily changed in the laboratory (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a). But there is clearly a difference between very short-term and longer-term change. According to Bowlby (1982), the development of an Attachment orientation in childhood is based on many encounters and interactions with caregivers, which gradually create a mental network of relatively stable expectations and concerns. Thus, it may take many episodes of security priming in a laboratory to begin to affect a young adult’s Attachment Style in a lasting way. Here, we explore this possibility, review existing evidence from our own and other researchers’ laboratories, and discuss directions for future research. Beginning in infancy, people rely on Attachment figures (close relationship partners who provide protection, comfort, and support; Bowlby, 1982) when they encounter stresses, threats, or disappointments. Over time, these figures and encounters with them are internalized as mental representations, which Attachment theorists call ‘working models’ (e.g., Bretherton & Munholland, 1999). These models can represent the self, key relationship partners, and major kinds of interactions with such partners. Such mental representations are associated in memory with particular emotions, motives, and goals that, taken together, form a person’s Attachment Style (e.g., Gillath et al., 2006; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007b). Attachment Styles are thought to develop through a combination of conditioning and cognitive representation (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007b). For example, Attachment figures who reliably provide safety and support in times of need reinforce the association in long-term memory between turning to them and having one’s anxiety and stress reduced. Eventually, merely calling a supportive Attachment figure to mind and perhaps also
Lidia Suárez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Why people play massively multiplayer online games
International Journal of e-Education e-Business e-Management and e-Learning, 2013Co-Authors: Lidia Suárez, C.f.w. Thio, Smita SinghAbstract:The current study investigated whether the problematic use of massively multiplayer online games (MMO) was associated with a particular Attachment Style. Moreover, we explored the possible motivations underlying MMO gaming, and the interdependence between motivations and Attachment Styles. The results showed that gamers with anxious and avoidant Attachment Styles suffered from problems associated with MMO gaming more than gamers with a Secure Attachment Style. Also, we found that all gamers played to immerse themselves into a fantastic word regardless of their Attachment Style.
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Attachment Styles, Motivations, and Problematic Use of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
2012Co-Authors: Lidia Suárez, C.f.w. Thio, Smita SinghAbstract:The current study examined the relationship between different adult Attachment Styles, motivations, and gaming problems associated with massively multiplayer online games. Firstly, we explored the association between Attachment Styles and problematic online gaming use. Secondly, we explored the different motivations that people with different Attachment Styles have to play massively multiplayer online games. Findings indicated that participants with anxious Attachment Style and avoidant Attachment Style showed more problematic online gaming issues than participants with Secure Attachment Style. Also, all the participants played mainly to immerse themselves into a virtual world, and not for social motivation or achievement motivation.
Omri Gillath - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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moving toward a Secure Attachment Style can repeated security priming help
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2008Co-Authors: Omri Gillath, Emre Selcuk, Phillip R ShaverAbstract:Despite the abundant literature on Attachment processes and the development of a Secure or inSecure Attachment orientation during childhood, it is still unclear whether adult Attachment Style can be changed through systematic interventions, and if so how the change process works. One way to learn more about such change is to create it, on a small scale, in the laboratory. It is already known that a person’s sense of security can be momentarily changed in the laboratory (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a). But there is clearly a difference between very short-term and longer-term change. According to Bowlby (1982), the development of an Attachment orientation in childhood is based on many encounters and interactions with caregivers, which gradually create a mental network of relatively stable expectations and concerns. Thus, it may take many episodes of security priming in a laboratory to begin to affect a young adult’s Attachment Style in a lasting way. Here, we explore this possibility, review existing evidence from our own and other researchers’ laboratories, and discuss directions for future research. Beginning in infancy, people rely on Attachment figures (close relationship partners who provide protection, comfort, and support; Bowlby, 1982) when they encounter stresses, threats, or disappointments. Over time, these figures and encounters with them are internalized as mental representations, which Attachment theorists call ‘working models’ (e.g., Bretherton & Munholland, 1999). These models can represent the self, key relationship partners, and major kinds of interactions with such partners. Such mental representations are associated in memory with particular emotions, motives, and goals that, taken together, form a person’s Attachment Style (e.g., Gillath et al., 2006; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007b). Attachment Styles are thought to develop through a combination of conditioning and cognitive representation (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007b). For example, Attachment figures who reliably provide safety and support in times of need reinforce the association in long-term memory between turning to them and having one’s anxiety and stress reduced. Eventually, merely calling a supportive Attachment figure to mind and perhaps also