Attachment issues
Attachment Theory is the focal point of our research on children, adolescents and adults in various contexts. In our attachment bond research projects, we apply observation and self-assessment methods. We are the first research center in the Czech Republic which uses the Strange Situation Procedure method for collecting data.
Projects
All My Loved Ones
Adolescence is an important transitional period during which one expands his or her relationship network. Adolescents make more friends than in the all the preceding developmental stages. They also begin to enter into romantic relationships that are new uncharted territory for them. This is a very important developmental task for adolescents and one that ought to be successfully gone through. It is however obvious that this task at hand makes adolescents face a myriad of problems and risks and that it is not easy for everyone to live through this stage in life. Adolescence is also an important period in life for the development of mental resilience, well-being, and of the capability to positively experience things or to put it simply – of emotional happiness. We are trying to understand how adolescents’ social relationships expand and change during this crucial period, and how their relationships are potentially linked to emotional happiness.

Project Period
8/2016 - 6/2018
Researchers
Tomo Umemura, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Lenka Lacinová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Eliška Horská
Mgr. Lenka Pivodová
Prof. PhDr. Petr Macek, CSc.
Cooperating Organization
Seznam publikací projektu
Total number of publications: 21
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Are one’s attachment avoidance toward a particular person and his/her placement of this particular person in the attachment hierarchy inversely overlapping? Four bifactor-analysis studies Plos One, year: 2021, volume: 16, edition: 1, DOI
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Transfer of Early to Late Adolescents’ Attachment Figures in a Multicohort Six-Wave Study : Person- and Variable-Oriented Approaches Journal of Early Adolescence, year: 2021, volume: 41, edition: 7, DOI
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Dotazník zmatení rolí pro adolescenty : Předběžné sdělení o vývoji sebeposuzovací metody Testfórum, year: 2020, volume: neuveden, edition: 13, DOI
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Imagery-induced negative affect, social touch and frontal EEG power band activity Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, year: 2020, volume: 61, edition: 6, DOI
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Transfer of Primary Attachment Figures from Early to Late Adolescence: Four-Cohort and Six-Wave Longitudinal Research Year: 2019, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Vývoj vazby k blízkým osobám od raného dětství do dospělosti : přehledová studie o vazbové hierarchii Československá psychologie, year: 2019, volume: 63, edition: 2
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A qualitative inquiry into teacher-student relationship from the attachment perspective Year: 2018, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Adolescents’ multiple versus single primary attachment figures, reorganization of attachment hierarchy, and adjustments : the important people interview approach Attachment & Human Development, year: 2018, volume: 20, edition: 5, DOI
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Role-confusion in adolescence: the new method for assessing role-confusion in family from adolescent perspective Year: 2018, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Všichni moji blízcí : adolescenti a dospělí kolem nich Year: 2018, edition: 1. vyd., number of pages: 115 s.