Carli Lucia L, Anzelmo Elena, Pozzi Stefania, Feeney Judith A, Gallucci Marcello, Santona Alessandra, Tagini Angela
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2019 May 14;10:1105. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01105. eCollection 2019.
This study explored attachment networks in committed couples who differed in parenting choice and relationship status. Attachment networks were defined in terms of attachment functions, attachment strength, the presence of a primary figure, and full-blown attachments. Participants were 198 couples, married or cohabiting, either expecting their first child or childless-by-choice. Results indicated that participants relied most strongly on partners for all attachment functions except secure base, for which they relied on mothers to a similar extent. Furthermore, expectant women reported more proximity seeking and stronger attachments to mothers, while expectant men relied more on fathers for safe haven. Married participants indicated less proximity seeking to partners than cohabiting couples, and married women reported less reliance on partners for safe haven than married men and cohabiting women. This study supports previous findings underlining the particular importance of partners for members of committed couples. Further, it extends past research by showing the robustness of this finding across parenting choice, and by revealing gender differences in the attachment networks of committed couples.
本研究探讨了在育儿选择和关系状态方面存在差异的已婚夫妇的依恋网络。依恋网络是根据依恋功能、依恋强度、主要人物的存在以及成熟依恋来定义的。参与者为198对已婚或同居夫妇，他们要么正在期待第一个孩子，要么是自愿不育。结果表明，除了安全基地功能外，参与者在所有依恋功能上最依赖伴侣，在安全基地功能上他们对母亲的依赖程度相似。此外，准妈妈们表现出更多的亲近寻求行为，对母亲的依恋更强，而准爸爸们在寻求避风港时更依赖父亲。已婚参与者比同居夫妇表现出更少的对伴侣的亲近寻求行为，并且已婚女性在寻求避风港时对伴侣的依赖程度低于已婚男性和同居女性。本研究支持了之前强调伴侣对已婚夫妇成员特别重要的研究结果。此外，它扩展了以往的研究，表明这一发现不受育儿选择的影响，并揭示了已婚夫妇依恋网络中的性别差异。
