The role of marriage and cohabited young adults on attachment styles
- Author Bhanu BS
- Co-Author Sreenivas M
- DOI 10.17605/O
- Country : India
- Subject : Psychology
Keywords : Attachment style, marriage, cohabitation
Abstract
Humans are social beings; we attach to each other it may be emotionally or psychologically. We tend to attach to each other by birth, ethologically or psychologically. Another form of attachment is mother child attachment or partner attachment or family or friends’ attachment. When it comes to attachment with the partner, we tend to marry them to form a bonding. Marriage is the bond between two people and it extends to two families for normal social and emotional development we tend to develop relationship with the other person. Cohabitation is a bonding with the partner, living with our soul mate it is also called as trial marriage. Marriage and cohabitation both have its merits and demerits of young adults using attachment style scales developed by Alexander, Feeney, Hohaus, and Noller (2001), keeping above points in view the present study was undertaken to find out the attachment style in married (n=60) and cohabited young adults(n=60). The obtained result signifies no significant difference in attachment style between Married young adults and cohabitation young.
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