Predicting friendship quality with rejection sensitivity and attachment security

Ayça Özen; Nebi Sümer; Melikşah Demir

doi:10.1177/0265407510380607

Predicting friendship quality with rejection sensitivity and attachment security

Ayça Özen, Nebi Sümer, Melikşah Demir

Psychology

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Abstract

We examined the interplay between friends' rejection sensitivity (RS) and attachment security in predicting friendship quality. Three competing hypotheses were tested concerning friendship quality, the unique effects of attachment anxiety, avoidance, and RS, as well as the moderating and mediating effects of RS. Results from emerging adults in Turkey (N = 407) revealed that unlike attachment anxiety and avoidance, RS had neither a unique nor a mediated effect on friendship quality. However, RS moderated the effect of attachment avoidance on friendship quality. These findings' implications are discussed considering the role of RS in the link between attachment security and friendship quality.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	163-181
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407510380607
State	Published - Mar 1 2011

Keywords

attachment anxiety
avoidance
friendship quality
rejection sensitivity

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Social Psychology
Communication
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

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