Alicia Limke-McLean

University of Central Oklahoma | UCO · Department of Psychology

Previous research has demonstrated an association between structure of beliefs about romantic partners and feelings for that partner. Here, the structure of college students' beliefs about their parents was linked to distinct types of ongoing parent-child relationships identified by cluster analysis. An integrative structure of mother knowledge was...

Over the past few decades, research on attach-ment has investigated its development in infancy (Ainsworth, 1973; Ainsworth, Ble-har, Walters, & Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1969), transition to adult romantic relationships (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991; Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Simpson, 1990), and most recently, the relationship between attachment and issues o...

This study examined attachment styles, online behaviors, offline relationships, and sexuality of individuals engaged in a popular massive multiplayer online (MMO) game (Game of War: Fire Age). 178 players currently involved in romantic relationships completed surveys for in-game currency. Time spent gaming predicted less time with others, less rela...

Recent research has examined predictors of false confessions in criminal investigations. By incorporating a commonly utilized social rejection paradigm (Cyberball), the current study adds to the list of personality and situational predictors by examining the role of social exclusion—which is a likely by-product of long-lasting interrogation session...

Research on resilience has shown that resilient individuals possess a variety of internal characteristics (e.g., hardiness and reflectiveness) and a mixture of external characteristics (e.g., social contact and relationship recruiting) that interact to promote resilience. This research examined the relationship between social support of friends, so...

The goal of the current project was to investigate the effect of perceived parental differential treatment (affection and control) and insecure parental attachment on adult sibling attachment. University students with siblings completed measures of attachment to fathers, mothers, and siblings as well as perceived parental differential treatment in...

The pandemic has shown that expanding mental health services to places where it may be essentially unavailable is necessary. Mental health professionals are continuing to implement telehealth services into their careers, a year and half after the original quarantine. Telehealth services could be useful for people who live in rural areas, have busy...

Definition Therapeutic reflections are statements used by psychotherapists to restate, paraphrase, or uncover therapy clients' emotional reactions to situations, thoughts, behaviors, or interpersonal interactions.

Quantitative personality models of self-concept structures that contain multidimensional and dynamic components developed from theories about personality and individual differences (Showers 1992) Overview The self-concept is contextualized. Research on personality and individual differences have attempted to quantitatively model how self-concepts a...

Recent research has demonstrated that individuals' relationships with God are attachment-based. However, research has not yet investigated differences in attachment to God by parents' marital status. Thus, the goal of the present study was to examine these links. To do so, 288 undergraduate students completed measures assessing family structure, at...

The evaluative organization of self-knowledge refers to the manner in which individuals organize self-relevant knowledge (Showers, 1992). This model includes a continuum that ranges from perfect compartmentalization (i.e., organizing positively and negatively valenced self-beliefs into separate self-aspects) to perfect integration (i.e., organizing...

Limke-McLean, A., Gayzur, N. D., Everson, A. T., & Scott, J. L. (2017, January). NSFW: Pornography, attachment, sexual identity, and sexual activity. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Gayzur, N. D., Limke-McLean, A., Scott, J. L., & Everson, A. T. (2017, January). The Golden Girls were right! Aging, pornography, and sexual identity. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Everson, A. T., & Limke-McLean, A. (2017, January). Who will kiss me goodnight? Attachment, sexual orientation, and gender identity in polyamorous relationships. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Bratcher, T., & Limke-McLean, A. (2017, January). #WorthIt: Conflict resolution changes by relationship distance and attachment. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Recent research on communication in close relationships has focused on how relational uncertainty—or the inability to predict and explain behavior in relationships—is associated with poor relationship outcomes. Although the idea of relational uncertainty provides a useful framework from which the link between romantic attachment, conflict resolutio...

Everson, A. T., Limke, A., Scott, J. L., & Gayzur, N. D. (2016, May). Do you even know what you want? Attachment and sexual identity. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Gayzur, N. D., Scott, J. L., Everson, A. T., & Limke, A. (2016, May). The Golden Girls were right! Aging and sexual identity. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Limke, A., Everson, A. T., Scott, J. L., & Gayzur, N. D. (2016, May). NSFW: Attachment, pornography viewing, and sexual activity. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Scott, J. L., Gayzur, N. D., Everson, A. T., & Limke, A. (2016, May). Delete browsing histories regularly: Porn variety and aging. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Everson, A. T., & Limke, A. (2016, January). “Gayming” all night long: Outness and social support of LGBT gamers. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Limke, A., & Everson, A. T. (2016, January). Bye Felicia! Attachment and support in LGBT individuals. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Limke, A., Amin, S., Poojar, R., Kamble, S. V. (2015, May). Attachment to God across three major world religions: Fathers and mothers matter differently. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, New York.

Marra, A. J., Limke, A., Jones, P. C., & Wright, R. W. (2015, May). Theological convictions and attachment to God. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, New York.

Halsey, M. E. M., Limke, A., Secor, S. P., & Wright, R. W. (2015, May). Private losses: Disenfranchised grief in mental health clinicians. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, New York City, New York.

Limke, A. (2015, February). The cost of war: Attachment and gamers’ online and offline relationships. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Research in attachment has yet to examine the differential effects of unequal treatment by mothers versus unequal treatment by fathers and how unequal treatment affects daughters and sons differently. Moreover, research examining the link between differential treatment and relationship outcomes such as jealousy in romantic relationship has suggeste...

Although faculty have been increasingly encouraged to engage in a “writing-across-the-curriculum” program format, we believe that a systematic plan for writing assignments in university-level psychology departments should include a required writing course as well. Data from four sections of a newly implemented Writing for Psychology course suggest...

Over the past few decades, research on attach-ment has investigated its development in infancy (Ainsworth, 1973; Ainsworth, Ble-har, Walters, & Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1969), transition to adult romantic relationships (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991; Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998; Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Simpson, 1990), and predic-tiveness for other perso...

The role of attachment as a possible mediator of adjustment differences was examined in two samples of college students who had experienced childhood maltreatment before age 15. Although both emotionally and sexually maltreated samples had elevated scores on self-report measures of anxious and avoidant attachment compared to demographically-yoked c...

Previous studies examining the relationship between attachment and perfectionism have not included a comprehensive measure of perfectionism that determines subtypes of perfectionism and have not studied the relationship between attachment and perfectionism in adults outside of undergraduate students. Thus, the current study examined the relationshi...

Previous research has found that divorce negatively predicts college students’ romantic relationships and intimacy (Ensign, Scherman, & Clark, 2006). However, previous studies on adult children of divorce have not included extended family support as an influence on attachment styles. To address this void, the current study examined differences in a...

This study examined the self–structure (compartmentalization, self–complexity, and differential importance) of college students who reported maltreatment events before age 15. The focus was on emotional and sexual maltreatment, although physical maltreatment was taken into account. Only individuals who reported high sexual and high emotional events...

This article applies a dynamic model of self-structure to self-change during psychological treatment. At the outset of treatment, many individuals may have a negative compartmentalized self-structure. That is, a wide range of perceived negative attributes may be closely linked to each other within their important self-aspect categories. During trea...