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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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EE2.3.30.0037, research and development projectName: Zaměstnáním nejlepších mladých vědců k rozvoji mezinárodní spolupráce
GAP407/12/0854, research and development projectName: 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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