Attachment in adults

Chinese adopted girls aged 6-8 discussing their cultural socialization and their adopted mothers’ decisions on allowing their daughters to do so. - Passmore, Nola L., et al. "Parental Bonding and Identity Style as Correlates of Self-Esteem among Adult Adoptees and Nonadoptees*." Family Relations 54.4 (2005): 523-34. ProQuest. Web. 1 Oct. 2015. This article would be good because it discusses self-esteem, parental bonding, and identity of adoptees and non-adoptees. -Tan, Tony Xing, and Brittany…

sought out to create an emotional attachment with a partner. The attachment theory has different styles that can help couples to create the love which relationships and marriage are based on today. It is necessary that partners learn their own and their partners' attachment styles in order to create a better understanding of each other through communication that maintain benefits to the relationship and the individuals in it. By knowing their individual attachment style it…

Summary: This is a randomized, repeated measures intervention that used individualized, family-based approach and a multilevel design. The study purpose was to evaluate the impact of the short-term family-based intervention that supported preterm infants and their families, particularly the mothers, during the hospitalization and transition to home. The intervention aimed at “addressing the needs of parents and their high-risk infant, and improving parenting and family factors likely to affect…

There have been numerous attempts to define resilience. Some of the definitions of resilience highlight it as a process. Cicchetti (1995) defines it as a dynamic developmental process reflecting evidence of positive adaptation despite significant life adversity. The aspect of dynamic developmental process encompasses the attainment of positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000; Masten 2001). Emmy Werner was one of the first pioneers in the…

1. Reactive Attachment Disorder can be defined as a serious condition in which infants and/or young children struggle to establish healthy attachments with their main caregivers. 2. A healthy attachment style between a child and their parent starts while the baby is still in the womb. The connection and the desire that healthy children seek, especially when they are scared or hungry, displays a healthy attachment style. 3. Two circumstances that may “rob” children of the opportunity to form a…

Marianne. (2007, August). Attachment and marital maintenance. Communication Quarterly, 55 (3), 283-298. What previous theory/research was known about this topic? The attachment theory according to Dainton involves the behavior one uses to attain or retain closeness with another individual who provides security (285). The theory is applied to both early relationships in our life as well as mature long term relationships we are involved in. The theory on attachment styles originates from the…

the lack of additional support (all of which my interviewee experienced), but it also found that mothers who had avoidant attachment themselves tended to experience postpartum depression more than those who did not. This once again shows how avoidant attachment can perpetuate itself…

the way I interact with people is my attachment style. An attachment style is simply the way in which I do relationships; and that attachment style is determined by my early childhood relationships. Although my relationships as a child strongly influence my attachment style, it can still change based on the circumstances that I face throughout my life. Growing up I had a secure attachment style, but as I have grown up and experienced difficulties my attachment style goes between secure and…

return he immediately clings to them, so I think he is trying to trust them despite the trauma he has been through maybe he is unsure. During the time his is in school, he plays with others and seems happy, so I would say he does not have an avoidant attachment. I would predict if his caregiver was with him at school he would not engage in anything else, he would not leave their side to go play with…

Aleksandra Tyzkiewicz Social Psychology 9.08.2015 INTRODUCTION Many people have been strongly attracted to someone, maybe even in love. The main problem is that these two are separated by a very thin line, as a matter of fact many people confuse attraction with love. These people believe that the feelings they have for the other person are so strong that they passed the attraction phase and walked into what is so called “love”. These feelings usually lead to relationships and this is what…