Abstract
The study investigated young adults’ perceptions of their parents and romantic partners with respect to the quality of attachment to the loved ones. The sample consisted of 78 young Russian men and women aged 19–25 involved in a romantic relationship for at least for 12 months. The employed instruments were the Attachment to Close People Questionnaire (ACOQ), based on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) questionnaire, the Adolescents’ Report of Parental Behavior Inventory, and Leary’s Interpersonal Behavior Measure. Regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the attachment to the mother contributed to attachment to the romantic partner more than the attachment to the father. The attachment security with the partner was associated with the image of the partner.
Highlights
Establishing deep and healthy relationships with peers, including romantic relationships, is an important developmental task of late adolescence and early adulthood
In addition to self-efficacy, communication, marital relationships, and parenting, close relationships with romantic partners established in late adolescence and young adulthood have a great effect on a person’s social and emotional development at later stages of life [1]
We conducted correlation analyses to examine the relationship between attachment to the parents and attachment to the romantic partner on the Attachment to Close People Questionnaire (ACOQ) measure
Summary
Establishing deep and healthy relationships with peers, including romantic relationships, is an important developmental task of late adolescence and early adulthood. In addition to self-efficacy, communication, marital relationships, and parenting, close relationships with romantic partners established in late adolescence and young adulthood have a great effect on a person’s social and emotional development at later stages of life [1]. In this regard, choosing a romantic partner as a possible companion in future family life and developing a close relationship with that partner in late adolescence is undoubtedly important. Attachment theory widely spread abroad and arousing increasing interest among Russian researchers, has often served as an explanatory framework for examining romantic relationships in late adolescence and early adulthood. When getting close to his mother, a child feels comfort and security [2]
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