Sentences with phrase «romantic attachment research»

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A large body of additional research suggests that a child's early attachment affects the quality of their adult relationships, and a recent longitudinal study of 81 men showed that those who grew up in warm, secure families were more likely to have secure attachments with romantic partners well into their 70s and 80s.

More recent attachment theory is based on research into different styles of attachment in both children and adult romantic relationships.

However, research has also consistently shown that people can overcome poor attachment in childhood to develop healthy romantic relationships as adults.

While we can not say that early attachment styles are identical to adult romantic attachment, research has shown that early attachment styles can help predict patterns of behavior in adulthood.

Future studies about romantic attachment will focus on using the findings from research such as Young's and Diamond's to develop new treatments for grief associated with partner separation or loss and for disorders that involve social deficits, such as schizophrenia and autism.

More recently, Sue Johnson, the founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, added to Bowlby's research by adding that for this romantic attachment to feel secure, we need accessible, responsive, and engaged partners.

Overall, Zayas and colleagues» research provides evidence for what attachment researchers have been suggesting for a long time: parents play a pivotal role in shaping our expectations and tendencies in close relationships, including our adult romantic relationships.

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Research has uncovered two categories of secure attachment: Continuous - secures and earned - secures.1 My professor at the time was describing continuously secure (and / or insecure) individuals who develop an attachment in their childhood and carry that same attachment style into their adult romantic relationships.

Whereas kissing is commonly perceived as a display of affection in romantic relationships, research highlights a far more nuanced explanation regarding the «function» of kissing within relationships.1 Some research suggests that kissing enables individuals to assess the quality of potential partners by putting individuals in close proximity, making it easier to examine features that are associated with mate value, such as breath and skin texture.2 Other research suggests that kissing elevates levels of arousal, which may lead to sexual intercourse.3 A third body of research suggests that kissing can influence feelings of attachment, alleviate stress, and increase relationship satisfaction.4 Given these varied explanations, the question remains: is there a single purpose for kissing or do all these explanations hold truth?

Reluctance to disclose inner thoughts and feelings, remaining guarded, and having desire for personal control are all signs of avoidant attachment.1, 2 Research shows that in adolescence and young adulthood, avoidant individuals do not connect as deeply (they have less intimacy and emotional closeness) with friends and romantic partners as secure individuals do, and this lack of connection largely results from less self - disclosure.

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

«In attachment research, «working model» is a phrase that describes our basic belief system when it comes to romantic relationships - what gets you going, what shuts you down, your attitudes and expectations.»

A large body of additional research suggests that a child's early attachment affects the quality of their adult relationships, and a recent longitudinal study of 81 men showed that those who grew up in warm, secure families were more likely to have secure attachments with romantic partners well into their 70s and 80s.

Research has indicated that adult romantic attachment is influential and important to sexual and relationship satisfaction.

Using research gathered from 30 years of experience working with couples, they formed a comprehensive view of adult attachment and its role in romantic relationships.

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.

While at the University of Illinois, Ms. Love developed a research interest in attachment style in adult romantic relationships.

Research tells us our adult romantic relationships are tied to our early primary attachments as infants.

Research has shown that attachment style effects love attitudes, for example, Fricker and Moore (2002) conducted a study with dating couples and revealed that secure romantic attachment correlated positively with the Agape and Eros love styles whereas the anxious attachment was positively related to the Manic love style.

However, research by Lowyck, Luyten, Corveleyn, D'Hooghe, Buyse, and Demyttenaere (2009) has shown that romantic attachment to one's partner was positively related to well - being and relationship satisfaction during fertility treatments.

Furthermore, gender differences in romantic attachment tend to be more pronounced in research using community and college samples and less evident in web - based surveys which may also explain the current findings [58].

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.

Since the preeminent work of Hazan and Shaver [12], research concerning the influence of adult attachment on relationship satisfaction has demonstrated how secure attachment is positively associated with the quality of romantic relationships while insecure attachment is negatively associated with relationship satisfaction [25]- [27].

The inclusion of participants who were not students enhanced the generalizability of the findings and this was important considering much research on romantic relationship attachment has focused solely on university students [12][14][16].

Little research has examined how attachment styles in childhood are related to current romantic relationship experiences.

As we focused our research on the relative rank of the sibling and the romantic partner in the attachment hierarchy, this research was not designed to test this mediational model.

Since duration of partnership and relationship quality were found to be related to romantic attachment (Davis et al., 2006; Feeney, 2004), body image (Ambwani & Strauss, 2007; Weller & Dziegielewski, 2005), and aspects of sexual functioning (Davis et al., 2006; Klusmann, 2002; Murray & Milhausen, 2012), it would be valuable to include these variables in further research.

Taken together, previous research suggests that romantic attachment anxiety is associated with multiple aspects of negative body image, but that romantic attachment avoidance is unrelated to negative body image.