Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic
Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their
Mother, Father, and Friends?

J 2015

Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their Mother, Father, and Friends?

UMEMURA, Tomotaka, Lenka LACINOVÁ and Petr MACEK

Basic information

Original name

Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their Mother, Father, and Friends?

Authors

UMEMURA, Tomotaka (392 Japan, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lenka LACINOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Petr MACEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Emerging Adulthood, 2015, 2167-6968

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00080619

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167696814561767

UT WoS

000409590700004

Keywords in English

attachment preference;attachment hierarchy;identity;autonomy;romantic relationship

Abstract

V originále

This study examined whether emerging adults’ attachment preference for their romantic partner is complementary to their attachment preferences for their mother, father, and friends using a cross-sectional research design. Participants were 1,021 emerging adults recruited in the Czech Republic (mean age = 21.46, SD = 1.55) who filled out questionnaires. The attachment preference for the romantic partner correlated inversely with the attachment preference for friends but not with the preference for the mother or for the father. Our regression analyses revealed that emerging adults who were currently in a romantic relationship and had a longer romantic relationship were more likely to prefer their partner and less likely to prefer their friends. However, those emerging adults were not necessarily less likely to prefer their parents. For females, the length of romantic relationship was positively linked to their preferences for their mother. Hence, the results of this study accord with the claim that emerging adults’ attachment preferences are shifted to the romantic partner only from friends and not from the parents.

Links

EE2.3.30.0037, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním nejlepších mladých vědců k rozvoji mezinárodní spolupráce

GAP407/12/0854, research and development project

Name: Cesty do dospělosti: longitudinální výzkum vývojových trajektorií a prediktorů autonomie a identity

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Paths to adulthood: longitudinal research of developmental trajectories and predictors of autonomy and identity

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UMEMURA, Tomotaka, Lenka LACINOVÁ and Petr MACEK. Is Emerging Adults’ Attachment Preference for the Romantic Partner Transferred From Their Attachment Preferences for Their Mother, Father, and Friends? Emerging Adulthood. 2015, vol. 3, No 3, p. 179 - 193. ISSN 2167-6968. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167696814561767.

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