Abstract
This study examined the real-life expression of adult attachment styles in a non-clinical sample of 206 Spanish young adults. The Attachment Style Interview (ASI) was used to assess attachment styles. Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) was used to assess affect, cognition, social appraisals, and stress at random moments during the day, for a week, with PDAs. Compared with secure attachment, anxious attachment was associated with measures denoting hyperactivating tendencies (e.g., higher negative affect, stress, and feeling unwanted), while avoidant attachment was associated with measures denoting deactivating tendencies (e.g., less positive experiences and reduced desire for social contact). Moreover, attachment styles moderated the associations of perceived social closeness, but not social contact, with affect, cognition and functioning. The findings support the construct and ecological validity of the ASI and suggest that attachment styles influence how individuals construe subjective appraisals of themselves and their environment in the natural flow of daily life.
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