The Importance Of Attachmentment In Early Relationships

Every day people interact within different types of relationships, whether they are with friends, family or significant others. We have a need for these relationships. One of the most important relationships that provide support for an individual is the one we have with our parents. Multiple studies have shown that children rely on their parents for a sense of security in early development because of how the parents respond to their child. This sense of security that is given to the child helps the child develop their sense of emotion. John Bowlby was one of the most notable researchers who started to look at the early advancement of attachment theory. In his studies of parent-child attachment, Bowlby found that there is an innate need to have …show more content…
They gave their participants surveys, allowing the participants to choose which attachment type they thought they belonged in (these are the same attachment types identified in Ainsworth’s infant study), a scale indicating how high the participants rank their relationship in their life, how easy it was for them to “fall in love”, a brief history of attachment to their parents using descriptive words (e.g. reliable, caring, unresponsive) and how long they have been separated from their parents. Researchers found that the participants classified as having a secure attachment, their relationships were a lot happier and more satisfactory than participants that indicated other attachment types. Avoidant and ambivalent attachments showed high levels of jealousy and fear of intimacy that were significantly higher than secure attachment types. It was also noted that participants who were found to be categorized as secure thought that relationships “wax and wane” in love intensity, rather than the other attachment types that thought it was easy to fall into and out of love. However, their findings did not examine if there was a relationship between attachment and perceptions of premarital sex, which is being examined in the current …show more content…
It was found that participation in daily religious activities was related to the delaying of sexual initiation in both genders (Manlove, Terry-Humen, Ikramullah, & Moore, (2006). The same was found in Rostosky, Regnerus, and Comer’s (2003) study in regards to a reduction of sexual union among adolescents, especially if their belief was founded on negative consequences of engaging in sex. This finding did have a correlation to abstinence-only sexual education programs, in relation to Masters, Beadnell, Morrison, Hoppe, & Gillmore (2008) study of adolescents’ thoughts about abstinence and sex. Adolescents that viewed abstinence positively reduced the likelihood of engaging in sex and those who viewed engaging in sex positively elevated their chances. Abstinence-only sexual education showed to only be effective if the adolescents engaged had low levels of sexual intentions. Californian parents preferred comprehensive sex education, addressing age-appropriate physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of sexuality, rather than abstinence-only education in schools. This was supported among all difference of race, ethnicity, income, religious affiliation, or religious service attendance (Constantine, Jerman, & Huang, (2007). Although these results were found in a younger population, we can expand the scenario to the different age ranges, such as young