“What is more important than love?” Parental attachment and romantic relationship in Italian emerging adulthood

Alessandra Fermani,Ramona Bongelli,Angelo Carrieri,Claudette Portelli,Gonzalo Del Moral Arroyo,Morena Muzi,Maria Cristina Gugliandolo

doi:10.1080/23311908.2019.1693728

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Previous researches suggest that individuals with different attachment styles practice different styles of love, but these do not consider the role of trust, communication, and closeness to the fat...

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Research in social psychology has shown that adult attachment styles are important concurrent predictors of the quality of romantic relationships (Pascuzzo, Cyr, & Moss, 2013).The Attachment theory provides a framework for understanding the development of interpersonal patterns throughout the life span (Bowlby, 1969; Fonagy, 2018).Bowlby predicted that an individual securely attached in childhood is more likely to form secure romantic attachments in adulthood
We considered the discussion on love varieties, focusing on the theory of love styles developed by Hendrick and Hendrick (1986) on the basis of the systematisation previously proposed by Lee (1973)
The mother attachment was better than the father one

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The Attachment theory provides a framework for understanding the development of interpersonal patterns throughout the life span (Bowlby, 1969; Fonagy, 2018). Bowlby predicted that an individual securely attached in childhood is more likely to form secure romantic attachments in adulthood. The Attachment theory contains predictions about both continuity and discontinuity of individual differences across development. Bowlby (1973, 1980)) was clear in claiming that individual adaptation is always a product of developmental history and current circumstances and that change is always possible. The current attachment representations become the filter through which individuals view their significant relationships. An individual who shows secure attachments today, report greater satisfaction in relationships, whereas those individuals with insecure attachments feel unloved and undervalued by the significant people in their lives (Attili, 2017)

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