Influence of Family of Origin and Adult Romantic Partners on Romantic Attachment Security

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Dinero ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
Dannelle Larsen-Rife
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Romantic Partners

scholarly journals Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security.

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Dinero ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
Dannelle Larsen-Rife
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Romantic Partners

Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security.

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (S) ◽  
pp. 16-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Dinero ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
Dannelle Larsen-Rife
Keyword(s):  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Romantic Partners

scholarly journals Attachment and Images of Parents and of the Romantic Partner of Russian Young Men and Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Natalia Sabelnikova ◽  
Dmitry Kashirsky ◽  
Olga Garvard
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Romantic Partner ◽  
Interpersonal Behavior ◽  
Men And Women

The study investigated young adults’ perceptions of their parents and romantic partners with respect to the quality of attachment to the loved ones. The sample consisted of 78 young Russian men and women aged 19–25 involved in a romantic relationship for at least for 12 months. The employed instruments were the Attachment to Close People Questionnaire (ACOQ), based on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) questionnaire, the Adolescents’ Report of Parental Behavior Inventory, and Leary’s Interpersonal Behavior Measure. Regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the attachment to the mother contributed to attachment to the romantic partner more than the attachment to the father. The attachment security with the partner was associated with the image of the partner.

scholarly journals Romantic Relationship Churn in Early Adolescence Predicts Hostility, Abuse, and Avoidance in Relationships Into Early Adulthood

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1195-1225
Author(s):  
Emily L. Loeb ◽  
Jessica Kansky ◽  
Rachel K. Narr ◽  
Caroline Fowler ◽  
Joseph P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Early Adolescent ◽  
Developmental Pathway ◽  
Close Friendships

This study examined early adolescent romantic “churning,” defined here as having a large number of boyfriends/girlfriends by age 13, as a problematic marker likely to predict hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict in later relationships. A sample of 184 adolescents was followed through age 24 to assess predictions of hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict from early romantic churning. Controlling for gender and family income, romantic churning at age 13 predicted relative decreases in peer preference and relative increases in conflict and betrayal in close friendships from ages 13 to 16, as well as higher observable hostility and self- and partner-reported abuse in romantic relationships by age 18 and greater avoidance during conflict with romantic partners by age 24. Findings remained after accounting for attachment security, social competence, and friendship quality in early adolescence, suggesting that early romantic churning may uniquely predict a problematic developmental pathway.

scholarly journals Hitting the bull’s eye: Attachment representations and the organization of social networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Elaine Scharfe
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
The Self ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Work Security ◽  
And Function ◽  
Bull's Eye

Hazan and Zeifman were the first to explore Bowlby’s proposition that adults would organize their attachment relationships into a hierarchy and since then considerable research has explored both the structure and function of attachment hierarchies using different methodologies. In this study, previous findings establishing an association between attachment and networks were replicated and the associations between network members were explored. First, consistent with expectations, the findings provided additional evidence that romantic partners do not necessarily jump to the top of the hierarchy and young adults continue to place parents, in particular mothers, at the top of their hierarchy. Consistent with previous work, security was associated with placing others closer to the self and attachment avoidance was associated with placing others farther from the self on an electronic bull’s eye. Furthermore, to date, this is the first study to examine the association between attachment representations and the organization of network members. Interestingly, security was associated with placing network members closer to each other and attachment avoidance was associated with placing network members farther from each other. This finding suggests that individuals with high attachment security may be more motivated to allow members of their social networks to mingle whereas individuals with high attachment avoidance scores seemed to be motivated to keep their network members at a distance. The results of this study extend our understanding how attachment representations may influence the organization of our social networks.

Developmental Trajectories of Adult Romantic Attachment: Assessing the Influence of Observed Interactions With Family of Origin

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110441
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Dinero ◽  
M. Brent Donnellan ◽  
Joshua Hart
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Latent Growth Curve ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
Adult Romantic Attachment ◽  
Curve Modeling

The present study evaluates longitudinal trajectories of adult romantic attachment during adulthood using latent growth curve modeling. We also tested how observed family interactions were related to trajectories of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance from ages 25 to 31 years (on average). Stability coefficients for attachment variables across 6 years were around .50. Growth modeling results suggested that people tend to become less anxious as they mature into adulthood and that there were individual differences in changes during this period. Although family interaction quality in the adolescent years predicted levels of romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance in young adulthood, this association did not extend to changes in attachment between the ages of 25–31 years. Overall, it seems that attachment variables demonstrate some degree of consistency over time even as the average trend is for declines in anxiety. Moreover, adolescent interactions with parents were not strong predictors of changes in attachment during adulthood. This is consistent with the view that family relationships during adolescence are associated more strongly with the stable components of attachment rather than dynamic aspects in adulthood.

From Middle Childhood to Adulthood Attachment

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-454
Author(s):  
Marshina Juliza Mohd Hasim ◽  
Hasrina Mustafa ◽  
Nor Hazlina Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Romantic Attachment ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Stability

Attachment theory argues that attachment styles developed during infancy and childhood will be relatively enduring and continue during adulthood. While research on adult attachment has been mounting in the past, less is known on the enduring effect of attachment styles with mother, father, and their peer or peers during childhood on adult romantic attachment styles. Past research in fact have obtained mixed findings on the stability of attachment styles from childhood to adulthood, especially in the context of Malaysian setting. In order to explore the stability of attachment styles from childhood to adulthood, a survey among 400 married individuals was conducted and partial least squares was employed for data analysis. The application of attachment theory in this study was established via two dimensions of anxiety and avoidance. The result indicated that respondents who exhibited high levels of anxiety and high levels of avoidance with mother, father, and their peers would display the same attachment styles with their romantic partners or spouses during adulthood. The findings provide conclusive evidence on the continuity and stability of attachment styles with stronger and enduring bonds observed for peer-adult attachment.

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