Summary This paper presents and tests a model of the impact of secure and insecure attachment styles
(secure, counterdependent, and overdependent) on citizenship behavior and workplace
deviance behavior through vigor at work. Employees who exhibit secure attachment styles
are proposed to exhibit more vigor at work because of more effective use of physical,
emotional, and cognitive resources which translates into increased organizational citizenship
behaviors (OCBs) and decreased deviance. Insecurely attached employees are hypothesized to
exhibit the opposite pattern. In a sample of 331 repair generalists in a large building facilities
and maintenance organization, results indicate that attachment styles indirectly predicted
OCBs and deviance through vigor. Implications of these results for attachment style, vigor at
work, OCBs, and deviance are discussed. Copyright # 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: attachment styles; vigor; extra-role behavior