Childhood on adult relationships AO1

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• Shaver et al Romantic love in adult hood is based upon these three behavioural systems in infacncy

1. Attachment
   1. Early attachments influences romantic relationships
   2. Person creates an idea of what relationships should be like based on primary attchment through the internal working model
   3. Could lead to attachment disorder
2. Caregiving
   1. Primary attachment figure is a model
      1. The child learns how to care for one another through the attachment figure's modelling
3. Sexuality
   1. Insecure attachment leads to sex without love is pleasurable

1. Childhood relationships

   Annotations:

   • DOWN: Qualter and Munn UP: Nangle et al
   1. Children develop a sense of their value through interactions
      1. This determines how they approach adult relationships
   2. Friendships are a training for adult relationships
      1. Having trust, acceptance and understanding is important in adult relationships
2. Adolescent relationships
   1. these help redirect intense energy towards partners instead of parents
      1. This allows an emotional and physical intimacy different from a parental one
         1. However, too much dating can be maladaptive

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• Both types of abuse make it hard to trust people and isolation especially in relationships

1. Sexual abuse
   1. psychological impairment in adulthood
      1. Hard to form healthy relationships
2. Physical abuse
   1. Has a negative effect on psychological functioning in adulthood
      1. anger
      2. anxiety
      3. depression