The effects of dispositional attachment orientations and contextual priming of attachment security on reckless driving |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel;2. Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel;1. Carnegie Mellon University, USA;2. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA;1. Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel;2. University of California, Davis, USA;1. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany;2. Professor Emeritus Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;3. School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel;1. Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, 2A Oester Farimagsgade, 1353 Copenhagen C, Denmark;2. Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark;3. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, CA, USA;4. Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark;1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chong Qing, China;2. Hubei tianmen high school, Hu Bei, China;3. Institute of Education, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chong Qing, China |
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| Abstract: | Three studies examined the effects of dispositional attachment orientations and contextual priming of attachment security on the willingness to drive recklessly. In all three, adolescents were exposed to primes of attachment security (a poster in Study 1, a video in Study 2, a guided imagination task in Study 3), positive affect, or neutral affect, and were then asked to report their willingness to drive recklessly. Participants were also asked to report on their attachment orientations (anxiety, avoidance), self-esteem, and self-relevance of driving. Attachment anxiety was related to higher willingness to drive recklessly. In addition, as compared to positive affect and neutral priming, attachment security priming exacerbated highly anxiously attached participants’ tendency to drive recklessly, but reduced this tendency among participants scoring low on attachment anxiety. Importantly, these effects could not be explained by variables unrelated to attachment. The discussion emphasizes the relevance of attachment theory for understanding risk-taking behavior, and relates to practical implications of the studies. |
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