8-7 When a Boy Loves a Girl: a Study on Matches of Attachment Styles, Love Relationships and Relationship Adjustment

This project inquired the relations between attachment styles, love relationship and relationship adjustment of college student couples. 1518 college students were administered with questionnaires and finaily 202 unmarried couples of college students were recruited for assessments on their attachment styles, love relationship and relationship adjustment.
The researchers suggested five main types of matches of attachment styles. They were : 1.compatible type such as safe-safe match of attachment styles; 2.exclude type such as anxious-anxious match, expel-expel match, and avoidance-avoidance match; 3.complementary type such as safe-anxious match; 4.conflict type such as anxiousexpel match; 5.one-way type such as safe-expel match. These five types of match of attachment styles of college student couples displayed different styles of love relationships and relationship adjustments.
Results were discussed and compared in terms of theory of attachment styles and other empirical studies in order to establish a more comprehensive theory for intimate relationship.

Keywords
matches of attachment style, love relationship, relationship adjustment

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