Studied the similarities between attachment style (AL) and sex role typologies in 3 studies, both defined by 2 dimensions: Self- and other-models of AL, and masculinity (MS) or agency and femininity (FM) or communion. 179 college students in Study 1, 172 Subjects (mean age 19.76 yrs) in Study 2 and 130 Subjects (mean age 19.52 yrs) in Study 3 completed questionnaires on adult AL, MS and FM. Subjects also completed questionnaires on extraversion, neuroticism, and self-esteem in Study 2, and on unmitigated communion in Study 3. Results show that AL and sex role typologies were related to each other. Attachment security was positively related to MS and FM, and therefore to androgyny. FM was related negatively to avoidant attachment, and MS to anxious-ambivalent attachment. Attachment security was similar to androgyny, and self model correlated with MS and other model with FM.

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Adult Attachment Lab, University of California at Davis