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| Published: September 22, 2021
Attachment Styles of Married and Cohabited Young Adults
Research scholar, Dept of Psychology, Bangalore University, Bengaluru India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.159.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.159
ABSTRACT
Human beings are social being in nature. We tend to attach to each other by birth, ethologically or psychologically. Marriage is one of the major components which attaches each other through bonding. For normal social and emotional development, we tend to develop relationship with the other person. Cohabitation is a new form of bonding with the person with whom we like and 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 shows that there is a no significant difference in Marriage and cohabitation young adults in their attachment styles.
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© 2021, Bhanu BS & Sreenivas M
Received: July 19, 2021; Revision Received: September 10, 2021; Accepted: September 22, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.159.20210903
10.25215/0903.159
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021