ipl-logo

Cross-Cultural Theory And Attachment Theory

1799 Words8 Pages

People engage in relationships due to a need of sense of belonging, security, friendship and many other beneficial factors. When people become romantically attracted to each other, one needs to understand the elements necessary for such an attraction to take place. In this essay the Attachment theory and the cross-cultural theory will be the perspectives in which one will explain romantic attraction.
Romantic attraction is to desire the next person physically and emotionally (Pastorino & Doyle-Portillo, 2012). Love involves the integration of cognitions, emotions and behaviours that play an important role in intimate relationships (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). Love consists of three components; intimacy, passion and decision/commitment (Sternberg, 1986).
The Attachment Theory illustrates how the kind of relationship one had with their parents in early childhood affects adult romantic attachment, this assumption is based on the fact that all children are emotionally and physically attached to the people who take care of them. The differences in the way certain individuals become …show more content…

In individualistic societies emphasis is placed on self realization, importance of rights rather than duties, self importance, initiatives that affect one personally and identity of one’s self based on ones attributes (Dion & Dion, 1996). In individualistic societies love would be persued on the basis of personal fulfilment, and in doing so by personal choice which disregards what the individual’s family believes. I n the event of marriage one judges based on their emotions towards the preferred partner in order to determine eligibility, that determinant being whether love exists between the two, one ultimately puts their needs before everything in order to come to a conclusion (Dion & Dion,

Show More
Related

  • Sternberg's Androgynous Marriage

    777 Words  | 4 Pages

    Each partner makes sacrifices for each other, the other reciprocates or they come to a mutual agreement that satisfies both partners. This style of marriage “is a healthy way of relating because each person is involved in the other person's life without sacrificing values (Mills, 2013).” Therefore, of the three styles of marriage, companionship, independence, and interdependence, the latter appears to the most

    Read More

  • Triangular Theory Of Love Analysis

    1490 Words  | 6 Pages

    Triangular Theory of Love is a psychological conception of love, and permutation love has 3 main components, the intimacy, passion, and commitment, where intimacy is having communication, support, commitment is how the couple maintain devote themselves to the relationship, and passion is any arousal or having any emotions need from each other. Sternbury’s view that an ideal relationship contain all three love components. The various combination of these 3 psychological of love components create 8 separate permutations, the Non-love, friendship, infatuated love, empty love, romantic love, companionate love, fatuous love, and consummate love. (Hill, 2012)

    Read More

  • Romantic Relationships Annotated Bibliography

    739 Words  | 3 Pages

    Lia De Marco Annotated Bibliography Romantic relationships are influenced by a majority of effects throughout life. Growing up your family history, communication and peer relationships form the skills on how you are gong to react as an adult. The part that interesting is how individuals use the influence to impact their romantic relationships. From being an outsider and watching parents handle conflict to being involved with conflict within itself.

    Read More

  • Attachment Theory Case Study

    856 Words  | 4 Pages

    Introduction The purpose of this discussion paper is to discuss a specific issue of the client, Laura, and the intervention model of Attachment Theory. Key features of the intervention model will be addressed, as well as the manner in which the model will be applied to a specific issue experienced by the client. Each of these aspects will be discussed in regards to their helpfulness in the intervention. Issue Statement

    Read More

  • Cultural Identity In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

    868 Words  | 4 Pages

    People in a family have the same culture and usually have the same belief which can impact one’s perspective of the world. Also, some beliefs have certain expectations, arranged marriage could be one. In “What is Cultural identity” the authors said, “arranged marriage has long been a cultural practice in India based on the belief that the families of potential spouses best know who would make a desirable match”(Trumbull and Pacheco 9). This demonstrates how a family’s belfies can impact the way one interacts in this world. So because of certain rules and beliefs family’s have, individuals may not be able to choose everything in their own lives.

    Read More

  • Relationship Analysis: Analysis Of Romance And Marriage

    716 Words  | 3 Pages

    Relationship Analysis Paper Romance has always been my favorite genre in all literature, films, and life in general. I assume without this form of intimacy none of us would be here. As a matter of fact, in this essay, I will be describing my romantic relationship with my husband, including a decision we made together, information on the “coming together” stages, how we overcome conflicts, and the dialects within our relationship. My family always spoke highly on marriages because they believed commitment is something people must not take for a gag.

    Read More

  • Inner Strength In The Secret Garden

    897 Words  | 4 Pages

    The first relationships we form as young children, greatly influence our lives. Our first relationships are usually of those with our parents. In A Little Princess, Sara Crewe loves her father greatly, he has been there for her always, even after the death of her mother. When he must leave she is heartbroken “ I love [my father] more than all

    Read More

  • Sigmund Freud's Theory Of Attachment

    1810 Words  | 8 Pages

    If one is aware of his or her attachment style then it will be easier to work on their relationship, especially on the fears and insecurities that both partners have. It will be easier to develop new attachment styles for a better relationship. Romantic relationships could fix a person’s attachment style, especially those with ambivalent or anxious attachment styles. Attachment style is something that becomes a part of one’s personality but a lot of people do not know their own attachment style. Attachment style affects everything from selecting a partner, to the quality of the relationship, and how the relationship ends, which is why it is important to determine one’s attachment style so as to understand one’s strengths and weaknesses in a relationship.

    Read More

  • Essay On Attachment Theory

    785 Words  | 4 Pages

    Overview of Attachment Theory Attachment theory tries to describe the evolution of personality and behaviour in relationships and it gives a reason for the difference in a person’s emotional and relationship attitudes. In the beginning, it looked at the mechanics of relationships between children and their parents but it has since been expanded to cover the entire life of the human being (Howe, 2000). Attachment theory includes insights learned from evolutionary theory, ethology, systems theory and developmental psychology (Howe, 2001).

    Read More

  • Conceptual Framework Of Attachment Theory

    1214 Words  | 5 Pages

    The paper mainly focuses on the conceptual framework of Attachment theory as well as attachment style of a client with Self-esteem issues that helps in the case formulation and treatment plan in Cognitive Behavioural Theory (CBT). Attachment style can be explained as an emotional connection of one person with another. The aim of this research study is to evaluate an association between attachment theory and cognitive behavioural approaches, explicitly pointing out similarities as well as differences between both. For the research analysis, qualitative research methodology has been selected for which distinctive previous researches, books and journal article resources has been examined as the gathered evidences are based on attachment theory

    Read More

  • Theories Of Online Dating

    884 Words  | 4 Pages

    According to this theory, nature of love is changing fundamentally and it can create either opportunities for democracy or chaos in life (Beck & Beck- Gernsheim, 1995). Love, family and personal freedom are three key elements in this theory. This theory states that the guidelines, rules and traditions which used to rule personal relationships have changed. “Individuals are now confronted with an endless series of choices as part of constructing, adjusting, improving or dissolving the unions they form with others” (Giddens, 2006). For instance, marriage nowadays depends on the willingness of the couples rather than for economic purposes or the urge to form family.

    Read More

  • Attachment Styles Reflection

    1156 Words  | 5 Pages

    Introduction At the beginning of our lives we are born to create a relationship with our love ones, it depends on our parent to provide us with love and warmth to develop a positive bounding relationship. The purpose of the paper is to reflect which attachment style was utilized by my parents during my childhood and which type of attachment style I identify more during my adulthood. The four types of attachment styles that will be discussed are avoidant attachment, secure attachment, disorganized attachment, and ambivalent attachment. This reflection paper will help me as a social worker by applying my knowledge to identify the type of attachment each individual or family has and better understand how I can help them with their issues that

    Read More

  • Marital Satisfaction Thesis

    2674 Words  | 11 Pages

    According to the conceptual framework, the dependent variable is marital satisfaction. It consists of dyadic satisfaction and dyadic consensus. Marital satisfaction is dependent variable because marital satisfaction is variable that want to investigate and it depend on dependent variable. Attachment style is very important for married couple in marital satisfaction (Raeisipoor, 2012). Independent variable in this study is attachment style, it including secure attachment style, fearful-avoidant attachment style, preoccupied attachment style and dismissing attachment style (Broderick, 1988).

    Read More

  • Definition Essay: What Is Love?

    428 Words  | 2 Pages

    Love is passion, commitment. It has inspired motivations, selfless acts, and has swayed the flow of history and greatly influenced people and societies. ‘Love’ is a very broad term. While a visualization of a romantic relationship may the first to come to many people’s minds upon the mention of it, love is demonstrated, acknowledged and celebrated in many other guises. How a parent loves their child is expressed very differently to how someone loves their spouse, but, overall, they share the same concepts of commitment, concern, appreciation, fondness, etc.; general notions of affection that are encouraged and expected by society and culture.

    Read More

  • Essay On Passionate Love

    1543 Words  | 7 Pages

    What is love? Everybody has his/her own understanding and definition of love. In order to better understand all the complexity of such a phenomenon, it is worth analyzing specific scenarios. Therefore, this paper concentrates on one of such scenarios, which, in fact, is one from my personal experience. I had been in a long-distance relationship that had lasted a little over a year.

    Read More

More about Cross-Cultural Theory And Attachment Theory

Open Document