Childhood on adult relationships AO1

Childhood on adult relationships AO1

1. Parent-child relationships

   • Shaver et al Romantic love in adult hood is based upon these three behavioural systems in infacncy
   • Attachment
     • Early attachments influences romantic relationships
     • Person creates an idea of what relationships should be like based on primary attchment through the internal working model
     • Could lead to attachment disorder
   • Caregiving
     • Primary attachment figure is a model
       • The child learns how to care for one another through the attachment figure's modelling
   • Sexuality
     • Insecure attachment leads to sex without love is pleasurable

2. Interaction with peers

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

3. Childhood abuse

   • Both types of abuse make it hard to trust people and isolation especially in relationships
   • Sexual abuse
     • psychological impairment in adulthood
       • Hard to form healthy relationships
   • Physical abuse
     • Has a negative effect on psychological functioning in adulthood
       • anger
       • anxiety
       • depression