Adult relationships

• What is intergenerational continuity?


  Children adopt the parenting style that their parents used
• What did Hazan and Shaver find?


  Answers to a survey about their adult love life are linked to the kind of attachment style they had as a child
• What did Kunce and Sharer find?


  Women with an insecure resistant attachment reported compulsive caregiving, eg mothering their partner
• Who found securely attached children are more likely to have stable relationships in adulthood?

  Kirkpatrick and Davis