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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

  • KOREAN
  • P-ISSN1229-067X
  • E-ISSN2734-1127
  • KCI

The Effect of Attachment on the Accuracy of Facial Expression Awareness

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2011, v.30 no.4, pp.1129-1148


Abstract

This study investigated the effects of adult attachment styles on the accuracy of emotion awareness from facial expression. For this purpose, the Experience in Close Relationships, Revised (ECR-R) and the Facial Awareness Task were administrated to 247 Korea University undergraduate students (90 males, 157 females). The participants were divided into four attachment styles (secure, preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful) according to their scores of the two dimensions of the ECR-R. On the Facial Awareness Task, the participants were asked to rate intensities of happiness, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, and fear in the mixed facial expression. The results showed that attachment-related anxiety was negatively associated with the awareness accuracy of anger facial expression, while avoidance was not related to the awareness accuracy. In addition, the group with fearful attachment style recognized anger facial expression more incorrectly than the group with secure attachment style. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research were discussed.

keywords
attachment, emotion, facial expression, anger, fearful attachment, 애착, 정서, 얼굴표정, 분노, 두려움형, attachment, emotion, facial expression, anger, fearful attachment

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