Adult Attachment Styles, the Desire to Have Children, and Working Models of Parenthood

Abstract

College students who had yet to marry and begin a family were asked about their desire to have children and their beliefs and expectations about themselves as parents (Study 1) and the characteristics of their prospective children (Study 2). Persons with more avoidant and anxious-ambivalent models of close adult relationships harbored more negative models of parenthood and parent-child relationships. These findings indicate that working models of parenting and parent-child relationships form well before marriage and the birth of children and that these models are systematically associated with attachment styles in adult relationships. The findings also suggest ways in which insecure attachments between child and parent may be influenced by the caregiver's models of parenting and parent-child relationships.

The evolved psychological mechanisms of fertility motivation: hunting for causation in a sea of correlation

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Interface trabalho-família, vinculação romântica e parentalidade

“…Alguns deles têm demonstrado que os indivíduos inseguros, especialmente os evitantes, tendem a revelar níveis menores de proximidade aos filhos e a fornecer-lhes menos suporte (Rholes, Simpson, & Blakely, 1995). Cumulativamente, apresentam modelos internos da parentalidade mais negativos do que os indivíduos seguros (Rholes, Blakely, Simpson, Lanigan, & Allen, 1997). A perceção da qualidade da relação com o(a) parceiro(a) parece, no entanto, influenciar este resultado.…”

Father-Infant Attachment and Role of Nurse: Review

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