Impact of Attachment History on Development of Social Relationships Through Emotion Regulation

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Attachment Theory; Early Education; Social Relationship; Parental Education; Romantic Relationship

Abstract

Attachment theory, since its discovery, has drawn substantial attention in the research community. Since Bowlby’s proposal of attachment as an innate need for infants in the last century, several influential researchers such as Harlow and Ainsworth followed up and made impactful progress that confirmed Bowlby’s opinion and further developed the foundation and application in this field. Although the formation of attachment styles is important, since evidence shows that early attachment history has an impact on individuals’ development of relationships later in life, only a limited population has sufficient knowledge on the significance of this subject. This document aims to uncover the association between attachment history in childhood and social relationships in adulthood and present to the public the impact of early attachment on an individual’s quality of social relationships later in life. The main method of this research is to review previous pertinent literature through online scholarly search engines. The research found that early attachment history does have an influence on different social relationships, such as romantic relationships and friendships, through emotion regulation. Specifically, evidence indicates that attachment security is positively associated with emotion regulation, and better emotion regulation is positively associated with qualities of romantic relationships and friendships. However, little evidence has been found on the impact of emotion regulation on family relationships, which needs to be further studied.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yukun Chen
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Impact of Attachment History on Development of Social Relationships Through Emotion Regulation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 209
EP  - 217
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_27
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_27
ID  - Chen2023
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