The prediction of attitudes toward infidelity based on attachment behavior in couple relationships, marital quality relationship and attachment styles in married women

The research was aimed to study the relationship between attachment styles and marital quality between spouses. A total number of 52 spouses representing teachers from Sekolah Menengah Agama Daeratul Ma'arifil Wataniah 1 (SMA DMW 1), in Peninsular Malaysia's northwest coast, participated in this study. There were two sets of questionnaires used in this study: Experience in Close Relationship (ECR) and Marital Adjustment Test (MAT). The results showed that there was a significant relationship between attachment styles and spouses' styles. However, there is no relationship between marital satisfaction among spouses, and there is also no relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction among spouses. Future research is suggested to enhance the research by moving beyond self-report instruments to develop alternative methods of assessment as some of the questions should be more specifically suitable in Malaysian culture.

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Predicting Marital Satisfaction Based on Attachment Styles in Married Women: The Mediating Role of Excitement

Psychology of Woman Journal ◽

10.52547/psychowoman.2.1.23 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 23-32

Author(s):

F Sabonchi ◽

F Dokaneifard ◽

M Behboodi

Keyword(s):

Marital Satisfaction ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Married Women ◽

Mediating Role

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The Role Of Attachment Style And Marital Quality In Attachment Injury Couples

Proceedings Journal of Education Psychology and Social Science Research ◽

10.21016/icepss.14068 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 97-101

Author(s):

Rizwana Begum ◽

Dr. K.B. Kumar

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Marital Quality ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Marital Distress ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Heterosexual Couples ◽

Enrichment Programs ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Specific Incident

The attachment system is thought to facilitate relationship goals by motivation seeking and bonding activities with significant others, particularly under times of stress (Bowlby, 1982). Attachment theory has also contributed to further understanding the marital relationship in terms of profound psychological and physiological interdependence. It is perhaps this interdependence that causes damage to the quality of the attachment relationship. Hence, attachment injury is defined as “a specific incident or event in which one partner is unresponsive and inaccessible when one partner cries out for help in extreme need” (Johnson & Makinen, 2001). Therefore, marital distress or breakup in couple’s relationships does not happen suddenly, so understanding of attachment injury in relation to individual’s marital quality and attachment style would help practitioners to be equipped for appropriate and effective inventions. Further, it would also help counselors and mental health professionals to be familiar with the complexities of the topic by dealing with consequences of an attachment injury ethically and competently, Therefore our study aimed at examining the prevalence and nature of attachment injury and its effect on marital quality, in a group of married heterosexual couples. It also attempted to associate attachment styles with and without attachment injury in couples. The study employed a cross-sectional exploratory design with a set of self-administered measures. The sample comprised of 400 married individuals from urban Bangalore. Statistical results showed those individuals who were experiencing attachment injury are associated with poor marital quality. It was also seen that attachment injury was found to be associated with gender and insecure attachment style. Therefore our findings suggest that poor marital quality with an insecure attachment style plays an important role in attachment injury over time. Based on the attachment style, further intervention strategies and effective programs should be designed for marital counseling. And marital enrichment programs may be useful to enhance marital quality to prevent marital distress or breakups.

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Relations between Marital Processes and Outcomes in the Marriages of Nontraditional and Traditional Women

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3.915 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 92 (3) ◽

pp. 915-929 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lyn Rhoden

Keyword(s):

Marital Quality ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Occupational Status ◽

Marital Stability ◽

Married Women ◽

Gender Role Orientation ◽

Data Set ◽

Positive Communication ◽

Marital Outcomes ◽

And Gender

The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of the marital processes of cohesion, flexibility, and communication to marital quality and marital stability in the marriages of nontraditional and traditional women. Selected longitudinal data from the 1992 Marital Stability Over the Life Span Data Set were used. A subsample of 74 married women who were defined as nontraditional and a comparison group of 274 traditional women were selected according to their occupational status and gender-role orientation. Comparisons indicated that some marital processes, including higher emotional bonding, spousal interaction, negotiation, and positive communication patterns, were significantly related to marital outcomes for nontraditional women.

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Differentiating Between Attachment Styles and Behaviors and their Association with Marital Quality

Family Process ◽

10.1111/famp.12186 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 518-531 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Jonathan G. Sandberg ◽

Angela B. Bradford ◽

Andrew P. Brown

Keyword(s):

Marital Quality ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

And Behaviors

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The Effect of Self-Differentiation Training on Attachment Styles and Self-Esteem in Married Women

Practice in Clinical Psychology ◽

10.32598/jpcp.8.3.629.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 193-202

Author(s):

Razieh Behjati Najafabadi ◽

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Married Women ◽

Analysis Of Covariance ◽

Control Group ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

Training Course ◽

Post Test ◽

Self Differentiation

Objective: The present study was done to determine the effect of self-differentiation training on attachment styles and self-esteem among married women in our center. Methods: This semi-empirical with pre-test and post-test was done on 30 subjects selected from married women in a training course during the spring 2017 using available sampling method who were divided into two experimental and control groups randomly. After training, the research questionnaires, including the Adult Attachment Scale by Hazan and Shaver and Rosenberg‘s Self-esteem Scale were completed by the examinees. The members of the experimental group participated in a training course for 8 sessions (100 min) but no training was done for the control group. The research data were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) via SPSS v. 22. Results: The results of ANCOVA indicated that self-differentiation training had a significant effect on secure attachment style, anxious-ambivalent attachment style, and self-esteem (P<0.05), whereas it had no significant impact on avoidance attachment style (P>0.05). Conclusion: The self-differentiation training intervention may lead to a rise in the secure attachment style and self-esteem and a reduction in anxious-ambivalent attachment style in married women in our center.

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Interparental conflict and relational attitudes within romantic relationships: The mediating role of attachment orientations

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ◽

10.1177/02654075211061617 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 026540752110616

Author(s):

Rami Tolmacz ◽

Rachel Bachner-Melman ◽

Lilac Lev-Ari ◽

Karen Almagor

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Interparental Conflict ◽

Structural Equations ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Couple Relationships ◽

Anxious Attachment ◽

Attachment Orientations ◽

Avoidant Attachment

Early experiences and childhood perceptions of interparental conflict (IPC) have consistently been shown to have detrimental consequences for future psychological adjustment, in particular for attachment and couple relationships during adolescence and adulthood. We hypothesized that 1. IPC would predict anxious and avoidant attachment styles, and three relational attitudes associated with couple relationships: sense of relational entitlement, pathological concern, and authenticity; and 2. Attachment style would mediate the associations between IPC and these three relational attitudes. Measures of perceived IPC, attachment orientations, relational entitlement, pathological concern, and authenticity in romantic relationships were completed online by 280 young adults aged 19–32. IPC was positively correlated with anxious and avoidant attachment styles, restricted and inflated sense of entitlement, and pathological concern and negatively with authenticity. A structural equations model showed that IPC predicted avoidant and anxious attachment styles, which positively predicted an inflated and restricted sense of relational entitlement and pathological concern and negatively predicted authenticity. Attachment styles fully mediated the relationships between IPC and the relational attitudes. IPC therefore seems to be related to imbalanced attitudes in romantic relationships, due in part to a propensity toward insecure attachment orientations. Children with insecure attachment who are exposed to significant levels of IPC may be at high risk for relationship problems later in life because of difficulties exposing their vulnerability, assessing need fulfillment realistically, and caring for themselves as well as others. They should therefore be helped to communicate their relational needs to significant others, in particular to their partners.

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