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Avoidance of the real and anxiety about the unreal: Attachment style and video-gaming
2017
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
In this article we discuss the light and dark side of attachments and attachment style in physical and digital worlds. We argue that many games offer opportunities for the generation of new and meaningful attachments to both physical and digital others. We discuss two 'Fundamental Attachment Errors', and show how these can lead to both 'light' outcomes, in terms of opportunities to learn more secure attachment patterns, and 'dark' outcomes where existing dysfunctional behaviours become more
doi:10.1177/1463949117714085
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