Exploring the Associations between Adult Attachment Security and Self-actualization and Self-transcendence
Self and Identity April 30, 2012 Lorna J. Otway, Katherine B. Carnelley 82 citations
There are parallels between attachment needs (Bowlby, 1969/1982) and the love- and esteem-needs Maslow (1943) identified in his theory of self-actualization, which later included the other-oriented concept of self-transcendence (Koltko-Rivera, 2006). Our aim was to integrate these two theories of personality. A survey of undergraduates (N = 130) showed that attachment avoidance and attachment...