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Gormley, Barbara; Lopez, Frederick G. – Journal of College Counseling, 2010
This study examined the contributions of gender, adult romantic attachment orientations (i.e., avoidance, anxiety), defense mechanisms (i.e., narcissism, other-splitting), and stressors to college student psychological abuse perpetration (dominance). Men with higher levels of attachment avoidance, narcissistic entitlement, and stressful problems…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Dating (Social), Defense Mechanisms, Correlation
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Gormley, Barbara; Lopez, Frederick G. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study investigated whether gender, stressful problems common among college students, and adult attachment orientations (anxiety and avoidance) contributed to self-reported perpetration of psychological abuse in dating relationships among 127 college students. College men's stress levels were the strongest predictor of perpetration of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Dating (Social), Psychology, Males
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Gormley, Barbara – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2008
In this theoretical paper, mentoring relationships are conceptualized as close relationships that occur along a spectrum from highly functional to highly dysfunctional, with most occurring in between. A complex set of factors describe the functioning level of mentoring relationships: (a) the attachment styles of the mentors and mentees; (b)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Cultural Differences
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Lopez, Frederick G.; Mitchell, Paula; Gormley, Barbara – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
Tests a model for predicting college student distress, including measures of negative life event impacts, adult attachment orientations, and several indexes of self-organization. Results demonstrated that attachment anxiety along with 2 self-organizing predictors (self-splitting, self-concealment) each made unique contributions and collectively…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, College Students, Higher Education