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Running head: MOTIVATED AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR SYSTEM 1
The Motivated Affective Behavior System:
A Dynamic Account of the Attachment Behavioral System
Jennifer Rose Talevich
University of Southern California
Object Description
| Title | The motivated affective behavior system: a dynamic account of the attachment behavioral system |
| Author | Talevich, Jennifer Rose |
| Author email | talevich@usc.edu;uzebra@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-09-04 |
| Date submitted | 2012-10-03 |
| Date approved | 2012-10-03 |
| Restricted until | 2012-10-03 |
| Date published | 2012-10-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Read, Stephen J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Monterosso, John R. Walsh, David A. Marsella, Stacy C. Tambe, Milind |
| Abstract | A model of motivated affective behavior system (MABS) is reviewed and validated. Four human-data studies test a computational model (Talevich, 2012) that integrates attachment theory, several models of emotion processing, and goal systems theory. Previous work on attachment models the dynamic experiences that serve to activate and deactivate the attachment system (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2002). In contrast, the current work models the dynamics within the attachment system: the internal mechanisms that underlie activation, hyperactivation, and deactivation. MABS is a mediational process model. Appraisals of a situation influence behavior through an intervening motivation sub-system, which, in turn, triggers emotional responses that call for action (or inaction). The motivation subsystem includes Approach and Avoidance Motive Systems and a Goal-Situation Congruence system. The final product is an assessment of the total impact a situation has upon one’s goals (Goal Impact). Attachment research generally examines emotions as outcomes with regard affect regulation. The present model may be the first to treated as functional signals for attachment behavior. This provides a highly detailed account of the emotion and motivation processing that is missing in attachment research. Furthermore, personality is examined as chronic activations within in this intervening process. |
| Keyword | behavioral system; emotion; affect; motivation; goals; motivated behavior; construals; working models; schema; attachment; close relationships; dating; courtship; relationship dissolution; Goal Impact; infidelity |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Talevich, Jennifer Rose |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-TalevichJe-1222.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | Running head: MOTIVATED AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR SYSTEM 1 The Motivated Affective Behavior System: A Dynamic Account of the Attachment Behavioral System Jennifer Rose Talevich University of Southern California |
