The Importance Of Undergraduate Students In Psychology

The attachment style that an individual exhibits as an infant can affect their adult romantic relationships. An attachment pattern is established in early childhood attachments and continues to function as a working model for relationships in adulthood. This model of attachment influences how each of us reacts to our needs and how we go about getting them met. The ability to recognize one 's attachment can help someone to understand their strengths and vulnerabilities in a relationship.

Those with insecure attachments tend to have lower relationship satisfaction compared to those who are securely attached. Those who have a secure attachment style provide a caregiving role, their behaviors are responsive and sensitive, non-controlling and show interest during interactions. Secures are affectionate with touch, enjoy physical contact (intimate & sexual) and are willing to ask for support. Individuals with an insecure anxious attachment are more self-focused and always looking for approval and support from their partner regardless of low and high stress situations. Anxious attachment individuals are also over caring and hyper vigilant. Lastly, individuals with an avoidant attachment value independence and have low levels of self-disclosure. Avoidant individuals are less likely to use touch to express affection and are uncomfortable with intimate sexual contact. In short, being aware of your attachment style and your partners can shed light on marital conflict and possible solutions and corrective behaviors to better marital

Undergraduate students enrolled in a general psychology course will participate for course credit. Participants will first complete the Experiences In Close Relationships Questionnaire (a measure of attachment style in romantic relationships; Fraley, Niedenthal, Marks, Brumbauh, & Vicary, 2006), the Relationship Questionnaire (a measure of general attachment; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991), and the Eyesenck Personality Questionnaire (a measure of key components of personality that fall under the four categories of extraversion, introversion, stability and neuroticism; (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) that will serve as the basis for the falsified results that indicate the potential for a “future alone”. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Control (No feedback), social exclusion condition (future alone), or social inclusion condition (future belonging) (Twenge et al., 2001; 2002; 2007; Dewall et al., 2009). The feedback, if given will consist of a response by the experimenter that predicts a life of fulfillment and significant relationships or a life with little to no relationships of significance. The participants receiving no feedback are representative of the control condition. The participant will be told the feedback is based on the results of the personality questionnaire he or she has filled

Attachment styles influence relational patterns between a married couple and their children. These attachment relational patterns known as anxious, avoidant, and secure base styles are a product of the interactions experienced in early childhood with their caregivers. It affects people’s intercommunication with others all through their life span. Individuals’ attachment style involves a systematic pattern of relational assumptions, emotions, and behavior that develop from the subjective constructs definitive of attachment experiences throughout their lives. Negative relational patterns increase the likelihood of marital violence in the home. When experiencing stress related life issues, conflicts may arise due to substandard communication skills leading to physical violence, aggressiveness, resulting in harsh spousal disputes. A positive upswing in marital and family harmony occurs when healthy communication skills develop along with secure based attachment characteristics, such as, humility, gratitude, and forgiveness of self and others. These characteristics provide coping mechanisms that establish a positive self-identity and healthy social interaction with others. As the anxious and avoidant relational styles exercise these positive characteristics, in time, they develop a positive view of self and others while learning to work through life stressors, which benefit the marriage and family.

Attachment theory was originally proposed by Bowlby (1969) as an explanation of interpersonal relationships, with particular focus in his work on the parent-child relationships which are formed in early childhood. He noted that this was an evolutionary need within us as humans to form close attachments to improve our rate of survival (Bowlby, 1969). He later also theorized that these attachment styles would persist throughout life into adulthood (Bowlby, 1988). Further work on attachment theory by Bartholomew & Horowitz (1991) expanded on attachment styles and looked at the continuation of attachment style into adulthood. Using interviews with participants and the participants close friends they found evidence for four types of adult attachment styles: Secure, Preoccupied, Dismissing and Fearful (Bartholomew & Horowitz 1991). Further support for adult attachments styles is from Mikulincer & Shaver (2004) showing that attachments styles persist from childhood into adulthood demonstrating bowlby 's later hypothesis

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Fraley (2002) completed a meta analysis of studies concerning attachment in order to investigate the level of attachment pattern’s continuity throughout life. The study indicated that there was a certain stability of the attachment pattern, and that the stability is independent of time. Even though it is theorized that a secure pattern will be likely to stay unchanged, it is still indicated that experiences such as bad relationships will be able to change the attachment pattern (Fraley,

One of the social work values is that the Attachment Theory supports the importance of human relationships. According to NASW (2017) relationships are an important tool that enhances client’s wellbeing. Social workers can use Attachment theory to understand the human need for intimacy as well as the need for a source of safety and comfort to provide emotional benefits and proper development. In this case, one of the client’s goals is to form a healthy intimate relationship with a significant other. As the client stated, “I’m tired of being in unhealthy relationships where I do not feel appreciated and I often feel used.” The clinician can use attachment theory to help the client achieve her goal by helping them understand their internal working model, which is related to insecure attachment. This will help the client create a positive image of herself and increase her self-confidence, and as a result, potentially develop healthy attachment with others (Blakely, 2015). Furthermore, according to Cassidy (2000), the Attachment theory explains how romantic love is similar to the attachment infants form with their caregivers since both relationships involves touching, gazing, and even baby

Family violence is a large and heartbreaking issue that is very common in many households, as well as relationships. For this annotated bibliography, I will go into depth and find research related to that of attachment and partner abuse. Through my analyzing I hope to find links between the two, possible prevention, what it really is, and how to spot these tendencies in myself as well as others. Through this course and prior knowledge, I predict that whether or not there is intimate violence in a relationship has a huge correlation to attachment issues within the relationship. It is important to research these things not only for my aspirations in a career, but also to offer help for those I care about and know signs, to hopefully prevent

Attachment Style and Romantic Relationships Research Paper Attachment theory has been of interest to many fields of study, from psychology to ethology, even biology and evolution. The developmental implications of the theory can be applied to different personalities, why we actively seek partners or long term relationships, or simply to explain why an infant may cry when its mother leaves the room. Although the initial implications were intended to explain the response of children when separated from their caregivers, research has proven its application to adult relationships, showing patterns of behavior based on attachment theory terminology. This paper explores the different aspects in which attachment theory is applied in adult relationships, such as finding a partner, predictability, and evolutionary purpose of caring for offspring.

Humans are complicated and so are our relationships. Attachment theory is a psychological modal used to guide clinical interventions to understand the long-term effects of interpersonal human relationships. However, this theory is not about relationships in general but is about human relations and the support seeking behavior in response to emotional trauma or threats (Vrtička & Vuilleumier,

Attachment style is a profound effect not only on our emotional development, but also upon the health of our relationships. A child forms a strong emotional bond with caregivers during childhood with lifelong consequences. It is important to be aware of attachment during infancy and early childhood in order to raise secure, independent and empathetic children. A secure, trusting attachment to parents during childhood forms the basis for secure relationships and independence as adults. It affects everything from our partner selection to how well our relationships progress to, sadly, how they end. That is why recognizing our attachment pattern can help us understand our strengths and vulnerabilities in a relationship. An attachment pattern is

In the study by McDonald and Borsook (2010), thirty students (18 female, and 11 males) from an introductory psychology course were offered course credit to participate in the study. They each were assigned to a two different study conditions. Each of the students took questionnaires, including an attachment style questionnaire at the outset of the study, and each were randomly selected to a different testing scenario. Some were selected to be part of a positive social interaction, and some to a negative social interaction. The study concluded that individuals with avoidant attachment responded positively, to positive social interactions. This contradicted the belief that these individuals hold on to feelings of superiority, and shy away from

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

This study was a qualitative thematic analysis to see if there was any evidence in early relationships that then affects the adult attachment theory. The qualitative textual analysis was carried out on a pre-existing, edited, filmed semi-structured interview. The thematic analysis showed that there is some truth in the adult attachment theory but life experiences and circumstances also have an effect on the individual. Furthermore relationships can play an important part in our lives with some evidence showing that Bowlby’s theory has some validity, (as cited