This study conceptualizes personal religion, like romantic love, in terms of attachment theory
and explores empirical relationships between adult attachment style and religious belief and�…

This study was the first to examine relations between attachment and religion–spirituality in
adults using a developmentally validated attachment assessment, the Adult Attachment�…

In this study we sought to address several limitations of previous research on attachment
theory and religion by (1) developing a dimensional attachment to God scale, and (2)�…

In this paper we argue that attachment theory, as developed by John Bowlby and refined
and extended by a host of other psychological researchers, offers a potentially powerful�…

Highlights•Like human caregivers, God may be perceived to act as a noncorporeal
attachment figure by believers.•God is experienced as a source of safety and security by�…

The authors review findings from the psychology of religion showing that believers'
perceived relationships with God meet the definitional criteria for attachment relationships�…

In this study, we examined associations among romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance,
positive and negative religious coping, and marital adjustment in a community sample of 81�…

In a two-wave survey study designed to extend and refine previous research on religion as
an attachment process, college students completed a four-category attachment-style�…

Recent research has shown the relationship between an attachment to caregivers and an
attachment to God, an attachment to God and adult attachment, attachment to God and�…

This chapter is divided into 4 major sections. The first section introduces the idea that God
and other deities are often perceived by many as attachment figures. In the second section I�…