Literature suggests that specific parenting styles and practices of mother/father figures influence adulthood attachment behaviors. However, these experiences are reliant on the adult child’s perception of reality at that time. Furthermore, the literature overlooks causation of attachment; that is, experiences during one’s life can alter secure attachments in childhood to insecure attachments in adulthood.
With these driving dimensions, the purpose of this study is to garner a clearer understanding of insecure attachment in adulthood: to what extent these styles rely on relationships specific to caregivers and how they are influenced by specific adverse experiences throughout the lifetime. This is important to provide critical information to clinicians’ work with adults in various situations.
Every participant will then be presented with an adult attachment questionnaire. Then you will receive a parent/caregiver survey. Then you will receive a resilience survey. Then you will receive a trauma inventory survey. Lastly, you will receive a final parent/caregiver survey. In total, this study will take 15 to 25 minutes to complete. You are free to skip any sections that are not relevant to you.
Requirements: Participants must be currently living in the United States and must be proficient in English. The age range is 20 to 50.
This study has been approved by Alliant University and IRB.
Participants may request a summary of the aggregate results by contacting the PI at nfitzgerald1@alliant.edu.
For general questions, contact the Alliant International University Institutional Review Board at Alliant-irb@alliant.edu.
In order to ensure that you have access to these emails to contact persons responsible for the oversight, supervision or completion of this study, please either download or print this consent form before proceeding with this study.
There will be no monetary incentive for completing this survey.
Survey Link: https://alliant.qualtrics.com/...m/SV_0oABDbvPPYcrWu1
For SurveyCircle users (www.surveycircle.com): The Survey Code is: 8LE9-P7JM-K4V6-TUL4
I greatly appreciate your participation!
Best,
Nicole FitzGerald
Undergraduate Psychology
Alliant International University