Sentences with phrase «romantic attachment figures»

Building on this information, the present study explored whether viewing pictures of romantic attachment figures while receiving pain activated similar neural regions, leading to reductions in the distressing experience of physical pain.

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Cut and pasted from our manuscript: Single adults might rely on attachment figures in more or less the same way that partnered adults do, but their attachment figures might be people other than a romantic or marital partner (e.g., parents, close friends, siblings).

«As their parents date and perhaps live with romantic partners after their first divorce, young children can quickly form attachments to these new figures in their lives.

This quiz, based on the Experiences in Close Relationships - Relationship Structures assessment developed by R. Chris Fraley at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is intended to help you explore and better understand your patterns of attachment in various close relationships (i.e. your attachment style, based on attachment theory), including your relationship with your spouse or romantic partner, as well as your relationships with your mother (or mother - figure) and father (or father - figure).

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.

Hazan and Shaver moved romantic love and adult relationships into a whole new place where partners can be, and are, significant attachment figures.

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.

Studies examining transfer of attachment among youth identified that parents are the primary attachment figures but were later in the course of shifting attachment related functions to their peers that included best friends and romantic partners.

In adulthood, a romantic partner functions as a major source of security and support (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998) and therefore becomes an individual's primary attachment figure who provides a secure base and safe haven (Shaver & Mikulincer, 2010).

How our early attachment figures responded to us emotionally (or didn't respond in many cases) will most likely be the way we end up relating in our romantic relationships.

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.

Moreover, it was predicted that MZ and DZ twins are more likely to perceive their sibling as a main attachment figure compared to their romantic partner, but NT siblings are more likely to perceive their romantic partner as a main attachment figure.

Taken together, we expected that (4) DZ twins are more likely attached to their sibling as a main attachment figure compared to their romantic partner, whereas (5) non-twin siblings are more likely to attach themselves to their romantic partner compared to their sibling.

Thus, we predicted that (3) MZ twins are more likely to choose their twin as a main attachment figure compared to their romantic partner.

They found that married participants were less likely to report their sibling as an attachment figure than single participants, which generally indicates that romantic partners seem to move to the top of the attachment hierarchy.

The results further reflect that the romantic partner is an important attachment figure for all three sibling types; in non-twin siblings the romantic partner is even the main attachment figure.

When restricting the sample to participants who were involved in dating and marital relationships (n for the subsample is unknown from the literature) they found that twins were less likely to view their romantic partners as attachment figures compared to NT siblings.

In early adulthood, romantic partners typically start to serve as important attachment figures (Fraley & Shaver, 2000).