Abstract. Clinical and personality research consistently demonstrates that people can form unhealthy and problematic attachments to material possessions. To better understand this tendency, the current paper extends past research demonstrating that anxieties about other people motivate these attachments. These findings suggest that although object attachment generally correlates with poorer well-being, it may attenuate well-being deficits associated with insecurity about close relationships. The current paper presents two studies using converging correlational ( N = 394) and diary methods ( N = 413) to test whether object attachments’ association with poorer well-being is moderated by relationship uncertainties. We find that both trait (Study 1) and state (Study 2) insecurities about others eliminated, and in some cases reversed, the negative psychological correlates of object attachment. These effects, however, were only observed when focusing on between-person variation in both studies; within-person analysis demonstrated that state variation in object attachment predicted better psychological well-being. These results highlight a need for more nuanced studies of object attachment and well-being.

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依恋焦虑减轻了物体依恋的幸福成本

摘要。临床和人格研究一致表明，人们会对物质财产形成不健康和有问题的依恋。为了更好地理解这种趋势，目前的论文扩展了过去的研究，证明对他人的焦虑会激发这些依恋。这些发现表明，尽管客体依恋通常与较差的幸福感相关，但它可能会减轻与亲密关系不安全感相关的幸福感缺陷。目前的论文提出了两项​​研究，使用收敛相关（N = 394）和日记方法（N = 413）来测试对象依恋与较差幸福感的关联是否受到关系不确定性的影响。我们发现特征（研究 1）和状态（研究 2）对他人的不安全感都消除了，并且在某些情况下逆转了，客体依恋的负面心理关联。然而，只有在两项研究中关注人与人之间的差异时，才能观察到这些影响。个人内部分析表明，对象依恋的状态变化预示着更好的心理健康。这些结果强调了对物体依恋和幸福感进行更细致入微的研究的必要性。