LE3 .A278 2023

2023

Price, Lisa

Acadia University

Bachelor of Science

Honours

Psychology

Psychology

This study explored the relationship between attachment style, loneliness, resilience, and non-self. Recollected caregiver sensitivity was investigated as a moderator, consistent with the Integrated Neural Representation of Self Theory. The sample consisted of 240 Canadian and American participants, who answered survey questions through MTurk pertaining to the variables of interest, including a newly developed non-self questionnaire. Data were analysed using bivariate correlations and hierarchical multiple regressions. Resilience and loneliness were thought to be negatively correlated, while attachment security and caregiver sensitivity were thought to be positively correlated, both of which were supported by the current findings. Hypotheses regarding non-self were mostly supported, whereby individuals with high levels of resilience and low levels of loneliness had a low sense of non-self. For those with low levels of resilience and high levels of loneliness, a high sense of non-self was reported. Multiple regression analyses examined the role of attachment styles and caregiver sensitivity on the dependent variables. The overall interaction models did not prove significant individually for any outcomes.

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