PMID- 16096189
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20051121
LR  - 20071114
IS  - 1461-6734 (Print)
IS  - 1461-6734 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 2
DP  - 2005 Jun
TI  - Predictors of young adults' representations of and behavior in their current 
      romantic relationship: prospective tests of the prototype hypothesis.
PG  - 105-21
AB  - Although attachment theory suggests that childhood experiences with caregivers 
      serve as a prototype for adult love relationships, few explicit tests of this 
      hypothesis exist in the literature. Drawing on data from a longitudinal cohort 
      followed from birth to young adulthood, this paper examined correlates and 
      antecedents of young adults' representations of and behavior in their current 
      romantic relationship. Young adults who experienced a secure relationship with 
      their primary caregiver in infancy as assessed in the Strange Situation were more 
      likely to (a) produce coherent discourse regarding their current romantic 
      partnership in the context of the Current Relationship Interview (CRI) and (b) 
      have a higher quality romantic relationship as observed in standard conflict and 
      collaboration tasks. Infant security accounted for variation in CRI security 
      above and beyond the observed quality of participants' current romantic 
      relationship. In contrast, the association between infant and romantic security 
      was partially mediated by individuals' self-reports about their romantic 
      experiences, suggesting that one plausible mechanism by which early experiences 
      with caregivers shape young adults' representations of their attachments with 
      romantic partners is through adults' expectations for and perceptions of love 
      relationships.
FAU - Roisman, Glenn I
AU  - Roisman GI
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign 
      61820, USA. roisman@uiuc.edu
FAU - Collins, W Andrew
AU  - Collins WA
FAU - Sroufe, L Alan
AU  - Sroufe LA
FAU - Egeland, Byron
AU  - Egeland B
LA  - eng
GR  - MH40864-18/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - Attach Hum Dev
JT  - Attachment & human development
JID - 100901315
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Courtship/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Interview, Psychological
MH  - Male
MH  - Minnesota
MH  - *Object Attachment
MH  - *Parent-Child Relations
MH  - *Perception
MH  - Prospective Studies
EDAT- 2005/08/13 09:00
MHDA- 2005/12/13 09:00
CRDT- 2005/08/13 09:00
PHST- 2005/08/13 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/12/13 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/08/13 09:00 [entrez]
AID - U30NLT146807H031 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/14616730500134928 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Attach Hum Dev. 2005 Jun;7(2):105-21. doi: 10.1080/14616730500134928.