The goal of this study is to examine the relationship among sexting behaviors, relationship satisfaction, and adult attachment style in young adults. Specifically, this study will focus on a variety of factors that can influence, or are significantly related to sexting, such as individual attachment style, gender age and satisfaction in the relationship.
Hypothesis 1: Women categorized as having an insecure attachment style will report sending significantly more sext messages than men categorized as having an insecure attachment style; hypothesis 2: Men categorized as having an insecure attachment style will report sending significantly more sext text messages than women who are categorized as having an insecure attachment style; and hypothesis
The three prototypes explored are avoidant, anxious-ambivalent, and secure attachments which describes how partners will behave in close relationships and how caring and supportive each individual is within their relationship. Avoidant attached individuals are withdrawn from relationships and untrustworthy of others. Anxious-Ambivalent individuals worry often about their partner’s needs being fulfilled as well as theirs and analyze if they’re moving too fast in the relationship when compared to their partner. Secured individuals are completely trustworthy of their partner and confident in their feelings and
Hazan and Shaver (1987) aimed to investigate whether they could classify the responders’ love relationships as secure, ambivalent, and avoidant, whether there was a correlation between the formed attachment pattern from childhood and attachment pattern during the love relationships, and whether there was a correlation between the distribution of childhood attachment patterns and adult love relationships’ attachment patterns.
On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt signed into law the widely debated Glass-Steagall Banking Act. Sponsored by Virginia’s U.S. Senator Carter Glass and Alabama’s U.S. Representative Henry Steagall, the Glass-Steagall Banking Act was one of the attempts to restore the American people’s confidence in the banking system. Congress knew the current banking system needed reform. They desired to restrict the use of bank credit for speculation and instead direct bank credit to more productive uses, such as agriculture, commerce, and industry.
Individual attachment style and its effects on adult romantic relationships were examined. The hypothesis of this literature review was that insecure attachment style would negatively affect the overall dynamic of adult romantic relationships while secure attachment would promote positive and healthy romantic relationships. Empirical studies looking at attachment style and relationship issues such as one’s views of self and others, communication, sexual intimacy, childhood family dynamic and God were evaluated. Reviews of studies were in line with the hypothesis indicating that insecure attachment does negatively affect the overall dynamic of romantic
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t… If You’re A Girl: Relational and Normative Contexts of Adolescent Sexting in the United States is a study by which researchers Julia R. Lippman and Scott W. Campbell investigate the teenage phenomenon of sexting. Their study looks at the
Brennan, Kelly A., Clark, Catherine L., & Shaver, Phillip, R. (1998). Self-report measurement of adult attachment: An integrated overview. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships (46-76). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Attachment research has predominately thought of attachment as a single personality trait constant across relationships. Early research on adult attachment was based on the thought that individual differences were categorical and that people fell into one of several different attachment styles, such as secure, avoidant, or anxious-ambivalent. Although the categorical model continues to guide much of attachment research, it is now challenged by the dimensional model of adult attachment styles. The current study uses modern taxometric methods to compare the two models to see if adults have a categorical attachment style or a dimensional attachment style.
The study our group is looking to replicate is, “Can You Tell That I’m in a Relationship? Attachment and Relationship Visibility on Facebook” by Emery, Muise, Dix and Le. The study looks at relationship viability and attachment styles. We will recruit participants using the participant pool of Mercyhurst University, which is composed of students who are signed into the Introduction to Psychology course. Students will not be placed into groups as we are not manipulating any variables. There are two conceptual variables that will be measured: attachment style and social media interaction regarding relationship exposure. Attachment style will be measured using the online Experiences in Close Relationships Scale. For the second concept, we will
The results confirm the essential characteristics of three attachment styles. In comparison with both insecure groups, secure subjects were relatively trusting in their romantic relationships and had high self-confidence. The two insecure groups share important features, because they got similar scores on most of the measures that separated them from the secure subjects. The two insecure groups are very different in some ways. The major characteristic of the avoidant style is the avoidance of intimacy, as these subjects responded to on the background questions. The subjects characterized in the anxious-ambivalent group were placed by dependence and by the strong desire for commitment in relationships. Their responses of love indicate endorsement of a neurotic rather than a circumspect or companionate form of love. The results also suggest implications for relationship quality. It is possible that secure subjects may be more “successful” than the other styles in their relationship and this is based of off two findings: their greater mean relationship length and their low scores on the Unfulfilled Hopes scales. These results can only prove indirect evidence concerning relationship satisfaction, and would usefully be approached by further research with more direct measures of relationship processes and
In spite of the fact that “Hills Like White Elephants” is fundamentally a discussion between the American man and his sweetheart, not one or the other of the speakers genuinely communicates with the other, highlighting the fracture between the two. Both conversation, but not one or the other tunes in or gets it the other’s point of see. Baffled and mollifying, the American man will say nearly anything to persuade his sweetheart to have the operation, which, in spite of the fact that never specified by title, is caught on to be an fetus removal. He tells her he adores her, for illustration, and that everything between them will go back to the way it utilized to be. The young lady, in the interim, waffles falteringly, at one point conceding that
For example, Nitzburg and Farber (2013) conducted a study on the role of attachment in impacting adults’ outlooks about social media websites and their disclosures. They believed that individuals with anxious attachment styles may attempt to relieve their discomfort by having more of their social interactions online in which they believe
Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.
Pornography is commonly used in many cultures across the world. Within the United States, alone, roughly 40 million people regularly visit porn sites (Streep, 2014). And yet, despite its growing popularity, only a handful of studies have explored pornography’s potential effects on sexual satisfaction for those in exclusive relationships (Bridges & Morokoff, 2011; Daneback et al., 2009; Maddox et al., 2011; Stewart & Szymanski, 2012; Stulhofer et al., 2010; Zillmann & Bryant, 1988). As using pornography can potentially have negative effects on both the user’s and their intimate partner’s sexual satisfaction, it is important to
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