And insecure attachment in children has been scientifically proven to have unfortunate influences on the development of good coping skills, emotional regulation as well as the forming
of close interpersonal relationships.
Whilst clearly this is not always the case, such as in abusive relationships, in general people aspire to having
close interpersonal relationships with others and spend significant amounts of time pondering their own relationships and those of others.
So much of the time, as we progress up the grades, there's less focus on teachers developing
a close interpersonal relationship with the kids in their classroom.
The IC - S was designed to measure participants» cultural orientation and originally included four dimensions of vertical and horizontal individualism and collectivism but for the purposes of the present study only the two horizontal dimensions of individualism and collectivism were utilized which we conceptualized as more relevant to
close interpersonal relationships than the vertical dimensions which is more concerned with hierarchical power structures.
The investment model was developed originally to move social psychology beyond focusing only on positive affect in predicting persistence in
a close interpersonal relationship.