Article 2.
"College Students" Ended Love Relationships: Attachment Style and Emotion".
Pistole, M. Carole. January/February 1995.
This article was based on a study done on college students who had ended an important love relationship in the preceding 12 months. The study focused on the development of four styles of "attachment -organization in relationships": secure, preoccupied, fearful-avoidant, and dismissing-avoidant. These styles are based on the amounts positive or negative views of self and partner, levels of self reliance, fear of intimacy, and distance in the relationship.
The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire in which they were to rate their level of agreement to statements about their ended relationships. Results reported were categorized by the style of relationships, and conclusions were drawn as to how each group responded to different aspects of the relationship. These aspects included feelings of abandonment, security, betrayal, sympathy for the partner, etc.
An important conclusion drawn was that securely attached people had a more "positive emotional experience, whereas persons with fearful and preoccupied styles had a more negative experience overall".
Article 3.
"Psychological Sense of Community and Student Burnout".
McCarthy, Mary E.; Pretty, Grace M. H.; Catano, Victor. May 1990.
This article is based on the correlation between the sense of community and burnout in college students. It suggests that there may be a lower occurrence of burnout in those who experience a strong sense of community at college. .
The "sense of community" described here is defined by the article as "the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doing for others what one expects from them . . . and the feeling that one is part of a larger dependable and stable structure . . . you know when you have it and you know when you don't".
