Sentences with phrase «between romantic attachment»

This study focused on links between romantic attachment, positive body image, and sexual functioning.

We tested a model specifying the relations between romantic attachment avoidance and anxiety, body appreciation, and sexual functioning in young adult females and found a good fit, demonstrating the importance of romantic attachment for both constructs.

Lastly, the association between romantic attachment anxiety and romantic attachment avoidance was relatively high in our sample, whereas these dimensions were found to be only weakly related in other studies (e.g., Davis et al., 2006).

Marital satisfaction mediated the association between romantic attachment and family functioning.

Not exact matches

Attachment theory is focused on the relationships and bonds between people, particularly long - term relationships, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners.

Although the purpose of this attachment bond is most obvious during childhood, attachment bonds, such as those between adult romantic relationship partners, persist throughout the life cycle and may be beneficial during times of threat or danger (3).

She also skillfully distinguishes between the bonding and attachment that oxytocin promote and the sexual or romantic love linked to other brain chemicals.

Her earliest research was on romantic love — the differences between people's intense / compelling («limerent») and secure / comfortable («attachment») love experiences.

The association between spouses» romantic attachment and family functioning has received both theoretical and empirical support.

Indirect effects were found between females» romantic attachment and all three dimensions of family functioning, but males» romantic attachment was only associated with triangulation of the child.

The relationship between adult romantic attachment anxiety, the experience of negative life events, and compliance

There also appears to be continuity between early attachment styles and the quality of later adult romantic relationships.

In the current study, ten questions taken from the MPSR (Tuchakinsky, 2010) that were related to romance were averaged to create a composite PSROM score between 1 and 5, which represented the intensity of a participant's romantic attachment, both emotional and physical, to their identified media figure.

Based on Bowlby's predictions and research ideas of Ainsworth, Hazan and Shaver created a «love quiz» experiment to explore the idea that there is continuity between early attachment types and the quality of later adult romantic relationships.

The psychological aim of affectional bonds between an individual and an attachment figure, seen in for example caregiver — child and adult romantic relationships, is to achieve or maintain emotional security.

The subscales are also able to distinguish between types of relationships (eg higher levels of attachment are reported in romantic relationships compared to other forms of relationships in college students).

The association between adult attachment styles and conflict resolution in romantic relationships.

Associations between working models of attachment and conflict management behavior in romantic couples.

Romantic relationship involves trust, intimacy and commitment between the partners and secure attachment provides the emotional security to this relationship.

More specifically, he explored the relationship between attachment styles and the way that individuals cope with stress in their romantic relationship.

However, the model might also be fruitful to explain mediational factors in the attachment relationships between romantic partners (e.g., shared experiences, association value, perceptions, knowledge, and subjective theories of relationships).

This emotional bond between two romantic partners accounts for much of the romantic partners» well - being and successful adaption (Hazan & Zeifman, 1994), making the romantic partner most likely to be at the top of the attachment hierarchy.

Most importantly, and in line with our predictions, the main effect was qualified by a significant interaction between sibling type and attachment to the sibling and romantic partner, F (2, 327) = 59.40, p <.001, η2partial =.27; see Figure 1.

The present study compliments previous research which suggests that there is a connection between perceptions of one's early parental relations and attachment in adult romantic relationships.

Beyond confirming that self - reported early risk exposure was associated with a more sexualized romantic self - concept, greater numbers of relationships, and greater attachment insecurity, «Study 1» confirmed a hypothesized four - way interaction between gender, early risk, romantic self - concept, and attachment style.

For example, the strong relationship between twins ---- especially MZ twins ---- might cause conflicts in close relationships, especially when the romantic partner expects to be the first in the attachment hierarchy (Pietilä, Bülow, & Björklund, 2012).

The present study examines the pattern of relationships between adult romantic attachment, cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety and depression, self - reported anxious and depressive symptoms, and both general and specific relationship outcomes.

This study investigated associations between adult romantic attachment and couples» conflict behaviors and the potential mediating role of intimacy.

[jounal] Shi, L. / 2003 / The association between adult attachment styles and conflict resolution in romantic relationships / The American Journal of Family Therapy 31: 143 ~ 157

This study will explore possible connections between perceptions of childhood experiences with parents, attachment styles in romantic relationships, and relationship satisfaction.

The aim of this study was to explore the association between perceptions of childhood experiences with parents, attachment styles in romantic relationships, and relationship satisfaction in a sample of young adults.

Our aims were (1) comparing the attachment between MZ, DZ, and NT siblings (similarly to Fraley & Tancredy, 2012); whereas at the same time (2) comparing the attachment to the sibling and the romantic partner (Tancredy & Fraley, 2006).

To our knowledge, this was the first study to examine the role of romantic attachment in relationships between positive body image and sexual functioning.

Our model confirmed the expectation of relationships between positive body image, sexual functioning, and romantic attachment orientations in young female university students.

The model indicated significant associations between body appreciation, the romantic attachment dimensions, and the sexual functioning domains.

The associations between body appreciation, sexual functioning and romantic attachment underline that specific (elements in) treatment programs can be helpful in building on a positive cycle, in which positive body image, a satisfying sex life, and a secure bond with the partner can reinforce each other.

To our knowledge, no studies have yet examined associations between positive body image and romantic attachment.

Studies that focused on the link between adult attachment and body image primarily examined relationships between aspects of body image and general adult attachment (i.e., attachment experiences in close relationships in general, without specifying whether those close others were romantic partners, parents, friends, etc.)(e.g., Elgin & Pritchard, 2006; Iannantuono & Tylka, 2012).