El impacto de la infedelidad y conflictos maritales de los padres en el estilo de apego y la prevalencia de infidelidad en los hijos
Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The first years of life and the relationship with parents can be decisive in a person’s development. People learn how to relate to others not only through their relationships with parents, but also by observing how parents relate to one another. The objective of this study is to understand how this process takes places. Current approaches in psychology suggest that attachment theory does not apply only to parent-child bond, but also to adult romantic relationships. Moreover, theories in systemic therapy suggest that some characteristics are transmitted from generation to generation in a family. The socio-cognitive learning theory also suggests that people learn through observing and imitating others. To understand how these theories apply to an Ecuadorian context, a quantitative study was carried out with 137 Ecuadorian university students. They were asked to fill the Children’s Perceptions of Interparental Conflict (CPIC) questionnaire, the scale of Experiences in Close Relationships- Revised (ECR-R), which measured the attachment type of the participant, and a demographic sheet, in which we also asked about their infidelity prevalence, as well as a question about knowledge of extramarital infidelity in their parents’ relationships. Results show that interparental conflict is an effective predictor of anxious attachment. Furthermore, there is evidence that interparental conflict is related to prevalence of infidelity in children. There was no evidence found to support the hypothesis that there is a correlation between knowledge of parental infidelity and prevalence of infidelity in the subjects. The findings don’t show that the attachment style in children is related with knowledge of parental infidelity either.
Authors: Y Gonzalo Muaitu Ochoa, Andrea Isabel
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2140642080