Longitudinal changes in emerging adults’ attachment preferences for their mother, father, friends, and romantic partner : Focusing on the start and end of romantic relationships

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025416647545" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025416647545</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025416647545" target="_blank" >10.1177/0165025416647545</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Longitudinal changes in emerging adults’ attachment preferences for their mother, father, friends, and romantic partner : Focusing on the start and end of romantic relationships

Original language description

Only a few studies have longitudinally explored to whom emerging adults prefer to turn to seek closeness, comfort, and security (called attachment preferences), and previous studies on attachment preferences in emerging adults have focused only on the beginning of romantic relationships but not on the end of relationships. Czech emerging adults (M=21.47;SD=1.48) completed the questionnaire of attachment preferences at two time points, Wave 1 (Summer 2013) and Wave 2 (Summer 2014). Latent difference score analyses revealed that emerging adults who were not in a romantic relationship in Wave 1 but started a romantic relationship between the two waves (n=97) and those who had a romantic partner in both waves (n=379) were both more likely to increase their attachment preference for the romantic partner and decrease their preference for friends, whereas those who did not start a relationship (n=185) were not. Emerging adults who were in a romantic relationship in Wave 1 but were not in Wave 2 (n=69) decreased their preference for the partner and increased their preference for friends. In all the groups, attachment preferences for the mother, for the father, or for the family did not change. Multiple regression analyses further revealed that for those who had a romantic partner in both waves, their length of romantic relationship was associated with changes in attachment preferences for romantic partners and for friends.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP407%2F12%2F0854" target="_blank" >GAP407/12/0854: Paths to adulthood: longitudinal research of developmental trajectories and predictors of autonomy and identity</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Behavioral Development

ISSN

0165-0254

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

136-142

UT code for WoS article

000398176200013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85007290442