When it comes to conflict in intimate relationships, the way in which partners engage in resolving it can either strengthen or weaken their relationship. Relationships that form may inherit conflict due to different cultural, familial, religious, and value backgrounds. In regard to intimate relationships, there are important areas of communication where conflict has a greater chance of arising, such as inefficient communication, incompatible sexual values, personality, other relationships, drug addiction, and opposing expectations of gender roles, (Madden & Janoff-Bulman, 1981; Schaap, Buunk, & Kerkstra, 1988) “. In 1987, Hazan and Shaver published a study that took the idea of romantic relationships and redefined them as attachment relationships.
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The first one uses the categorical measure brought about by Hazan and Shaver (1987). This implies that partners who are classified as secure reveal more to their significant others and are more comfortable in doing so, (Pistole, 1993). As for individuals with insecure attachment styles, they are more prone to employing integrating and compromising strategies (Levy & Davis, 1988; Pistole, 1989). They are less likely to remove themselves from conflict or engage in verbal aggression. (Senchak & Leonard, 1992). The partners who possess anxious/ambivalent attachment style are quite likely to pressure their partners, (Pistole, 1989) and dominate the attempt of conflict management, (Levy & Davis, 1988). Lastly, there are partners that have an avoidant attachment style. These individuals are not very likely to take part in compromising and integrating behaviors, (Levy & Davis, …show more content…
A group of researchers used a dimensional attachment measure to generate two factors: comfort with closeness and anxiety, and abandonment, (Noller & Feeney, 1994). The measurement recorded from this research discovered that the majority of husbands’ comfort with closeness was connected to being open to mutual discussion and understanding. It was also recorded that the wives’ anxiety involving fear of abandonment was negatively related to resolving the conflict and its outcome, yet, the anxiety was positively related to conflict and domination in the attempt of conflict resolution. In addition, for both husbands and wives, the anxiety from fear of abandonment was related to a history of them blaming and threatening, using physical and verbal aggression, employing patterns of demand-withdraw and pressure-resist, experiencing guilt after conflict, and lacking mutual discussions and understanding (Feeney, Noller, & Callan,
The first one uses the categorical measure brought about by Hazan and Shaver (1987). This implies that partners who are classified as secure reveal more to their significant others and are more comfortable in doing so, (Pistole, 1993). As for individuals with insecure attachment styles, they are more prone to employing integrating and compromising strategies (Levy & Davis, 1988; Pistole, 1989). They are less likely to remove themselves from conflict or engage in verbal aggression. (Senchak & Leonard, 1992). The partners who possess anxious/ambivalent attachment style are quite likely to pressure their partners, (Pistole, 1989) and dominate the attempt of conflict management, (Levy & Davis, 1988). Lastly, there are partners that have an avoidant attachment style. These individuals are not very likely to take part in compromising and integrating behaviors, (Levy & Davis, …show more content…
A group of researchers used a dimensional attachment measure to generate two factors: comfort with closeness and anxiety, and abandonment, (Noller & Feeney, 1994). The measurement recorded from this research discovered that the majority of husbands’ comfort with closeness was connected to being open to mutual discussion and understanding. It was also recorded that the wives’ anxiety involving fear of abandonment was negatively related to resolving the conflict and its outcome, yet, the anxiety was positively related to conflict and domination in the attempt of conflict resolution. In addition, for both husbands and wives, the anxiety from fear of abandonment was related to a history of them blaming and threatening, using physical and verbal aggression, employing patterns of demand-withdraw and pressure-resist, experiencing guilt after conflict, and lacking mutual discussions and understanding (Feeney, Noller, & Callan,