Industry Promotion Research 2024 KCI Impact Factor : 0.92
-
pISSN : 2466-1139 / eISSN : 2714-013X
- https://journal.kci.go.kr/ipir
KJCKorea
Journal Central
Psychotherapeutic Approach to the Effects of Insecure Attachment and Projective Identification on Infidelity
- Industry Promotion Research
- Abbr : IPR
- 2024, 9(4), pp.297~309
- DOI : 10.21186/IPR.2024.9.4.297
- Publisher : Industrial Promotion Institute
- Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
- Received : September 30, 2024
- Accepted : October 25, 2024
- Published : October 31, 2024
1한국열린사이버대학교
Accredited
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to deeply analyze the psychological influence of anxious attachment and projective identification on extramarital behavior. By systematically collecting and analyzing literature reviews, we explored how anxious attachment and projective identification are connected to extramarital behavior, strengthened the theoretical background, and suggested the possibility of application in counseling and treatment processes. We analyzed the possibility and pattern of extramarital behavior according to anxious attachment types (anxious, avoidant, and mixed types), and investigated whether projective identification plays an important role in justifying extramarital behavior and worsening relationships. The anxious attachment type tends to find stability in oneself through extramarital behavior due to the fear of being abandoned by the partner, while the avoidant attachment type tends to avoid emotional intimacy and maintain independence, and tends to distance oneself from the relationship through extramarital behavior. Mixed attachment is a state of mixed anxiety and avoidance, and tends to relieve extreme emotional changes through extramarital behavior. In addition, projective identification functions as a psychological mechanism that projects one’s negative emotions and anxiety onto the other person and shifts responsibility for extramarital behavior to the other person. Through this, infidelity became a means to protect or justify oneself, which resulted in worsening the relationship. This study shows that anxious attachment and projective identification are important psychological backgrounds of infidelity, and it provides important implications for the development of counseling and treatment programs. It can be used as basic data for promoting individual psychological health and forming healthy relationships.
Statistics
-
556 Viewed
-
2 Downloaded
Tools
Issue List
Citation status
* References for papers published after 2024 are currently being built.
[journal]
McCarthy, G.
/ 2010
/ Negative Childhood Experiences and Adult Love Relationships : The Role of Internal Working Models of Attachment
/ Attachment & Human Development
12
: 445~461
[journal]
Crowell, J.
/ 1994
/ Bowlby's Theory Grown Up : The Role of Attachment in Adult Love Relationships
/ Psychological Inquiry
5
: 31~34
[journal]
Cassidy, J.
/ 1994
/ The Insecure/Ambivalent Pattern of Attachment : Theory and Research
/ Child Development
65
: 971~991
[journal]
West, M.
/ 1999
/ Abuse and Violence in Intimate Adult Relationships : New Perspectives from Attachment Theory
/ Attachment & Human Development
1
: 137~156
[journal]
Lo, C.
/ 2019
/ Insecure Adult Attachment and Child Maltreatment: A Meta-Analysis
/ Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
20
: 706~719
[journal]
Mayseless, O.
/ 1991
/ Adult Attachment Patterns and Courtship Violence
/ Family Relations
40
: 21~28
[journal]
Macdonald, G.
/ 2013
/ Insecure Attachment Predicts Ambivalent Social Threat and Reward Perceptions in Romantic Relationships
/ Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
30
: 647~661
[journal]
Feeney, J. A.
/ 1990
/ Attachment Style as a Predictor of Adult Romantic Relationships
/ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
58
: 281~291
[journal]
Yi, J.
/ 2012
/ Insecure Attachment as a Predictor of Depressive and Anxious Symptomology
/ Depression and Anxiety
29
: 1~8
[journal]
Miga, E. M.
/ 2010
/ The Relation of Insecure Attachment States of Mind and Romantic Attachment Styles to Adolescent Aggression in Romantic Relationships
/ Attachment & Human Development
12
: 463~481
[journal]
Paoli, T. D.
/ 2017
/ Insecure Attachment and Maladaptive Schema in Disordered Eating : The Mediating Role of Rejection Sensitivity
/ Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
24
: 1273~1284
[journal]
Brown, G. W.
/ 2018
/ Exploration of the Influence of Insecure Attachment and Parental Maltreatment on the Incidence and Course of Adult Clinical Depression
/ Psychological Medicine
49
: 1025~1032
[journal]
Baer, J.
/ 2006
/ Child maltreatment and insecure attachment : a meta analysis
/ Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
24
: 187~197
[journal]
Abela, J.
/ 2005
/ Interpersonal Vulnerability to Depression in High-Risk Children : The Role of Insecure Attachment and Reassurance Seeking
/ Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
34
: 182~192
[journal]
Bachmann, C.
/ 2019
/ The Cost of Love: Financial Consequences of Insecure Attachment in Antisocial Youth
/ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
60(12)
[journal]
Forrester, M.
/ 2006
/ Projective Identification and Intersubjectivity
/ Theory & Psychology
16
: 783~802
[journal]
Olds, D.
/ 2006
/ Identification : Psychoanalytic and Biological Perspectives
/ Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
54
: 17~46
[journal]
Rh, E.
/ 1985
/ Identification and Its Vicissitudes
/ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
66
: 3~18
[journal]
Steffens, N. K.
/ 2023
/ Meta-Identification: Perceptions of Others’ Group Identification Shape Group Life
/ European Journal of Social Psychology
[journal]
Braddock, L.
/ 2018
/ Understanding Projective Identification
/ Philosophy, Psychiatry, &Psychology
25
: 65~79
[journal]
Ogden, T.
/ 1979
/ On Projective Identification
/ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
60
: 357~373
[journal]
Ng, H.
/ 1986
/ Positive Projective Identification
/ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
67
: 489~496
[journal]
Forrester, M.
/ 2006
/ Projective Identification and Intersubjectivity
/ Theory &Psychology
16
: 783~802
[journal]
Sands, S. H.
/ 1997
/ Self Psychology and Projective Identification —Whither Shall They Meet? A Reply to the Editors(1995)
/ Psychoanalytic Dialogues
7
: 651~668
[journal]
Blow, A.
/ 2005
/ Infidelity in Committed Relationships II : A Substantive Review
/ Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
31
: 217~233
[journal]
Isanejad, O.
/ 2018
/ Marital Quality, Loneliness, and Internet Infidelity
/ CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
21
: 542~548
[journal]
Munsch, C. L.
/ 2015
/ Her Support, His Support : Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity
/ American Sociological Review
80
: 469~495
[journal]
Buss, D.
/ 1997
/ Susceptibility to Infidelity in the First Year of Marriage
/ Journal of Research in Personality
31
: 193~221
[journal]
Weiser, D. A.
/ 2014
/ A Prototype Analysis of Infidelity
/ Personal Relationships
21
: 655~675
[journal]
Barbaro, N.
/ 2019
/ Romantic Attachment and Mate Retention Behavior : The Mediating Role of Perceived Risk of Partner Infidelity
/ Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
36
: 940~956
[journal]
Altınok, A.
/ 2020
/ Exploring the Associations Between Narcissism, Intentions Towards Infidelity, and Relationship Satisfaction: Attachment Styles as a Moderator
/ PLoS ONE
15
: e0237265~
[journal]
Duba, J.
/ 2008
/ Treating Infidelity : Considering Narratives of Attachment
/ The Family Journal
16
: 293~299
[journal]
Russell, V.
/ 2013
/ Attachment Insecurity and Infidelity in Marriage : Do Studies of Dating Relationships Really Inform Us About Marriage
/ Journal of Family Psychology
27
: 242~251
[journal]
Wang, C. D. C.
/ 2012
/ Adult Attachment, Cognitive Appraisal, and University Students' Reactions to Romantic Infidelity
/ Journal of College Counseling
15
: 101~116
[journal]
Warach, B.
/ 2019
/ The Aftershocks of Infidelity : A Review of Infidelity-Based Attachment Trauma
/ Sexual and Relationship Therapy
36
: 68~90
[journal]
Buck, N.
/ 2012
/ Explaining the Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Partner Abuse
/ Journal of Interpersonal Violence
27
: 3149~3170
[journal]
Petriglieri, G.
/ 2012
/ The Unwanted Self : Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work
/ Organization Studies
33
: 1217~1235
[journal]
Jureidini, J.
/ 1990
/ Projective Identification in General Psychiatry
/ British Journal of Psychiatry
157
: 656~660
[journal]
Kernberg, O.
/ 1987
/ Projection and Projective Identification : Developmental and Clinical Aspects
/ Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
35
: 795~819
[journal]
Nathans, S.
/ 2016
/ Whose Disgust Is It Anyway? : Projection and Projective Identification in the Couple Relationship
/ Psychoanalytic Dialogues
26
: 437~443
[journal]
Weiss, H.
/ 2014
/ Projective Identification and Working Through of the Countertransference : A Multiphase Model
/ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
95
: 739~756
[journal]
Catherall, D.
/ 1992
/ Working With Projective Identification in Couples
/ Family Process
31(4)
: 355~367
[journal]
Oka, M.
/ 2014
/ Insecure Attachment Behavior and Partner Violence : Incorporating Couple Perceptions of Insecure Attachment and Relational Aggression
/ Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
40
: 412~429
[journal]
Miga, E. M.
/ 2010
/ The Relation of Insecure Attachment States of Mind and Romantic Attachment Styles to Adolescent Aggression in Romantic Relationships
/ Attachment & Human Development
12
: 463~481
[journal]
Shephard, E.
/ 2021
/ Neurocircuit Models of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : Limitations and Future Directions for Research
/ Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
44
: 187~200
[journal]
Marsh, H.
/ 2022
/ Overcoming Limitations in Peer-Victimization Research That Impede Successful Intervention : Challenges and New Directions
/ Perspectives on Psychological Science
18
: 812~828
[journal]
Tyldum, G.
/ 2010
/ Limitations in Research on Human Trafficking
/ International Migration
48
: 1~13
[journal]
Powell, G.
/ 2020
/ Work-Family Lockdown : Implications for a Post-Pandemic Research Agenda
/ Gender in Management : An International Journal
35
: 639~646
[journal]
Lee, S.
/ 2020
/ Corporate Social Responsibility and COVID-19 : Research Implications
/ Tourism Economics
28
: 863~869
[journal]
Aguinis, H.
/ 2021
/ Policy Implications of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Research
/ Academy of Management Perspectives
35
: 367~381
[journal]
Palacios, J.
/ 2018
/ Breakdown : Concept, Research, and Implications
/ Research on Social Work Practice
29
: 130~142
[journal]
Petriglieri, G.
/ 2012
/ The Unwanted Self : Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work
/ Organization Studies
33
: 1217~1235
[journal]
Zheng, L.
/ 2020
/ Different Effects of Attachment Anxiety and Attachment Avoidance on Depressive Symptoms : A Meta-Analysis
/ Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
37(11)
: 3028~3050
[journal]
Peng, W.
/ 2020
/ Insecure Attachment and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Mediating the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Borderline Personality Features
/ Depression and Anxiety
38(1)
: 28~39
[journal]
Toplu-Demirtaş, E.
/ 2020
/ Unraveling the Roles of Distrust, Suspicion of Infidelity, and Jealousy in Cyber Dating Abuse Perpetration: An Attachment Theory Perspective
/ Journal of Interpersonal Violence
37(1-2)
: NP1432~NP1462
[journal]
Romeo, A.
/ 2020
/ Attachment Style and Parental Bonding : Relationships with Fibromyalgia and Alexithymia
/ PLOS ONE
15
[journal]
Richter, M.
/ 2022
/ Adult Attachment and Personality as Predictors of Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
/ Frontiers in Psychology
13
[journal]
Gordon, K. C.
/ 2020
/ Infidelity in the Time of COVID-19
/ Family Process
59
: 956~966
[journal]
Fife, S. T.
/ 2023
/ Couple Healing from Infidelity : A Grounded Theory Study
/ Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
40
: 3882~3905
[journal]
Richter, M.
/ 2022
/ Adult Attachment and Personality as Predictors of Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
/ Frontiers in Psychology
13
[journal]
Selterman, D.
/ 2020
/ What Do People Do, Say, and Feel When They Have Affairs? Associations Between Extradyadic Infidelity Motives with Behavioral, Emotional, and Sexual Outcomes
/ Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
47
: 238~252
[journal]
Caldwell, J. M.
/ 2023
/ Women Pregnant After Previous Perinatal Loss:Relationships Between Adult Attachment, Shame, and Prenatal Psychological Outcomes
/ Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
: 1~15
[journal]
Cushing, T.
/ 2023
/ The Relationship Between Attachment and Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review
/ Development and Psychopathology
5
: 1~15
[journal]
Kato, T.
/ 2023
/ Relationship Status and Gender-Related Differences in Response to Infidelity
/ Frontiers in Psychology
14
[journal]
Varma, P.
/ 2023
/ How Do People Betray in Relationships? Understanding the Process of Infidelity in Dating Relationships
/ Deviant Behavior
45
: 126~138
[journal]
Spencer, C. M.
/ 2020
/ The Association Between Attachment Styles and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization: A Meta-Analysis
/ Family Process
60(1)
: 270~284
[journal]
Debrot, A.
/ 2020
/ Is Touch in Romantic Relationships Universally Beneficial for Psychological Well-Being? The Role of Attachment Avoidance
/ Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
47
: 1495~1509
[journal]
Gordon, K. C.
/ 2020
/ Infidelity in the Time of COVID-19
/ Family Process
59
: 956~966