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PSYCH JOURNAL
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 128-136Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.610
Keywords
anthropomorphism; attachment anxiety; attachment avoidance; hoarding behavior; hoarding beliefs
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This study examines the impact of insecure attachment on hoarding behavior and finds that anthropomorphism mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and hoarding behavior, while hoarding beliefs moderate the relationship between attachment anxiety and hoarding behavior.
The impact of insecure attachment on hoarding behavior (HB) has been supported by empirical evidence. However, scant literature has focused on how anthropomorphism (attributing human-like traits, characteristics, or emotions to nonhuman objects) and hoarding beliefs (motivations for ownership) affect the relationship between insecure attachment and HB, especially among Chinese adolescents. Using a cross-sectional study, we reserved 903 participants (561 males, 342 females, M = 20.20, SD = 1.85, age range = 18-24 years) to complete self-report questionnaires about close relationships, anthropomorphism, saving beliefs, and saving inventory to investigate the mediating role of anthropomorphism and the moderating role of hoarding beliefs in the relationship between insecure attachment and HB. Attachment anxiety and avoidance had a positive relationship with HB, and anthropomorphism is a mediating factor in the association between attachment anxiety and HB. In addition, hoarding beliefs moderated the relationship between attachment anxiety and HB. This study further elaborated on the relationships between insecure attachment, anthropomorphism, hoarding beliefs, and HB, which might shed some light on adolescent clinical interventions.
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