Predictors of romantic relationship formation: Attachment style, prior relationships, and dating goals

Schindler, Ines; Fagundes, Christopher P.; Murdock, Kyle W.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01255.x

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“…This finding is consistent with at least two studies that failed to find changes in attachment avoidance after a security-focused manipulation (Carnelley & Rowe, 2007;Lavi, 2007). Schindler, Fagundes, and Murdock (2010) suggest that those who are avoidantly attached tend to be more hesitant to form a committed relationship with a partner than secure or anxiously attached individuals. In our sample, it is possible that, unlike for anxious attachment, avoidant attachment schemas were not effectively activated by the virtual relationship-building program or the representational priming procedure.…”

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Your responses guide me: Decreased attachment anxiety through an online relationship-building paradigm

Johnson

Bliwise

2017

Interpersona

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This study aims to improve self-reported attachment anxiety and avoidance through an online relationship-building paradigm. Seventyseven undergraduate participants completed an online attachment-focused paradigm in which they developed a relationship with a virtual partner, and fifty participants successfully completed a second laboratory-based phase of the study. During the online phase, all participants completed the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised questionnaire (ECR-R), the experimental group engaged in an interactive relationship-formation story with a virtual partner designed to enhance secure attachment, and control participants engaged in the program without guidance. Participants then visited the laboratory, were asked to recall the online interaction, and again completed the ECR-R. Overall, participants exhibited a significant decrease in their attachment anxiety, but not avoidance; however, change in attachment security did not differ based on study group. Change in the experimental condition was attributed to the secure focus of the guided interaction with the virtual partner. Change in the control condition, on the other hand, was attributed to general relationship practice and behavioral principles of operant conditioning. These results provide preliminary evidence for the effect of a virtual practice relationship on attitudes towards real-life attachments to significant others.

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Your responses guide me: Decreased attachment anxiety through an online relationship-building paradigm

Johnson

Bliwise

2017

Interpersona

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“…One indicator of willingness to commit to a relationship partner is levels of attachment. Schindler et al () found that those who reported greater attachment avoidance were less likely to commit to a relationship. This may be because those who are higher in attachment avoidance report being less ready to commit to a romantic partner (Hadden et al, ).…”

Section: Romantic Relationships and Sexual Activity In Adolescence Anmentioning

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A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Olmstead

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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The formation and development of romantic relationships continues to be an important area of study among adolescent and young adult populations. Although many adolescents and young adults report having committed romantic relationship experiences, which may or may not include sexual activity, research has grown during the past decade to study a variety of sexual experiences and relationship types. Consistent with identity formation and exploration and the opportunity for experimentation, adolescents and young adults also engage in a variety of casual sexual relationships and experiences. The past decade saw a dramatic growth in the study of casual sex and in particular hooking‐up experiences. Furthermore, scholars have begun to examine more fully young adults' attitudes toward and willingness to engage in consensually nonmonogamous relationships; however, little research has examined actual involvement in consensually nonmonogamous relationships among those in young adulthood. As with previous decade reviews, ongoing attention regarding how adolescent experiences serve to inform relationships and sex during the period of young adulthood is warranted. Directions for future research are identified and discussed.

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“…Over the past decades, attachment theory has become one of the major frameworks for the study of romantic relationships (Schindler et al 2010). It provides a perspective for understanding individual differences in the degree to which people are comfortable with intimacy (Fraley and Shaver 2000).…”

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Linking Adult Attachment Styles to Relationship Satisfaction in Hong Kong and the United States: The Mediating Role of Personal and Structural Commitment

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Bond

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J Happiness Stud

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Maintaining a satisfying heterosexual relationship is important to many individuals' happiness and physical health. Evolutionary theories on the formation of relationships suggest that adult attachment and relationship commitment are universal mechanisms for securing and maintaining such mating relationships. This study sought to understand how these two mechanisms may link to each other and how they in turn contribute to relationship satisfaction with one's current partner in Hong Kong Chinese and American cultures. Similarities in the model for relationship satisfaction were found among young dating couples in the United States and Hong Kong. Specifically, attachment anxiety was positively linked to structural commitment, whereas attachment avoidance was negatively related to personal commitment. Both dimensions of attachment (anxiety and avoidance) and both components of commitment (personal and structural) were found to predict current relationship satisfaction significantly and equivalently across cultures, with the pathway from attachment avoidance to current relationship satisfaction similarly mediated by personal commitment in both cultural groups. These results were interpreted in terms of a probable universal logic informing the interpersonal dynamics involving attachment and relationship commitment.

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Predictors of romantic relationship formation: Attachment style, prior relationships, and dating goals

Cited by 64 publications

References 22 publications

Your responses guide me: Decreased attachment anxiety through an online relationship-building paradigm

Your responses guide me: Decreased attachment anxiety through an online relationship-building paradigm

A Decade Review of Sex and Partnering in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Linking Adult Attachment Styles to Relationship Satisfaction in Hong Kong and the United States: The Mediating Role of Personal and Structural Commitment

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