Influence of Attachment Styles on Romantic Relationships

摘要: This investigation examined the impact of secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment styles on romantic relationships in a longitudinal study involving 144 dating couples. For both men women, secure style was associated with greater relationship interdependence, commitment, trust, satisfaction than were anxious or styles. The less frequent positive emotions more negative relationship, whereas reverse true style. Six-month follow-up interviews revealed that, among those individuals who disbanded, experienced significantly post-dissolution emotional distress did other people. In recent years, growing number researchers have become interested processes by which people develop, maintain, dissolve affectional bonds within close (see Bretherton, 1985; Clark & Reis, 1988). Empirical research this area spawned pioneering theoretical work John Bowlby (1969,1973,1980), sought to determine how why infants emotionally attached their primary caregivers they often experience when physically separated from them. identified clear sequence three reactions that typically occur following separation an infant its caregiver: protest, despair, detachment. Given remarkably reliable nature across variety different species, developed theory grounded evolutionary principles. Specifically, he argued system composed specific behavioral propensities designed keep physical proximity might been selected during history. By remaining contact could protect them danger predation, possessed these would likely survive reproductive age, reproduce, subsequently pass future generations. examining tenets Bowlby's has focused mainly patterns young children. Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, Wall (1978) styles: anxious/ambivalent