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Parental infidelity, Gender perception and attachment styles
Evaluating The Role Of Parental Infidelity On Relationship Attachment Styles with
Gender Perception as a Mediator
Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Bannerghatta road campus, Bangalore
Abstract
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Parental infidelity, Gender perception and attachment styles
Gender perception and parental infidelity are key factors in determining how a child's
attachment styles change over time. Numerous clinicians have noted that children who saw
parental infidelity struggle to sustain healthy romantic relationships are more sexually
promiscuous, and their relationships are more likely to be tainted by adultery. Using the
ECR-R test, or experience in a close relationship test, psychologists have researched various
attachment types and how it gets affected due to generational infidelity. For these reasons, we
would like to try to predict that generational infidelity and prior gender perception might
affect a person's attachment style in the 18–30 age range. The proposed study is a quantitative
analysis where we have taken a convenience sample of 270 people with prior cases of
parental infidelity and this study examines if infidelity and prior gender perception can be a
predictive factor of self-reported characteristics of how a person typically feels in emotionally
intimate relationships and how parental infidelity affects those characteristics
Keywords: Gender perception, Parental infidelity, attachment styles, intimate relationships
Introduction
Association between parental infidelity and attachment styles
Regardless of whether the infidelity is emotional or sexual in character, couples who
encounter it frequently report high levels of distress (Leeker & Carlozzi, 2014). Children who
are directly or indirectly exposed to the secrecy and falsehoods that frequently accompany
infidelity may end up trapped in the middle of loyalty disputes between their parents,
Parental infidelity, Gender perception and attachment styles
Evaluating The Role Of Parental Infidelity On Relationship Attachment Styles with
Gender Perception as a Mediator
Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Bannerghatta road campus, Bangalore
Abstract
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Parental infidelity, Gender perception and attachment styles
Gender perception and parental infidelity are key factors in determining how a child's
attachment styles change over time. Numerous clinicians have noted that children who saw
parental infidelity struggle to sustain healthy romantic relationships are more sexually
promiscuous, and their relationships are more likely to be tainted by adultery. Using the
ECR-R test, or experience in a close relationship test, psychologists have researched various
attachment types and how it gets affected due to generational infidelity. For these reasons, we
would like to try to predict that generational infidelity and prior gender perception might
affect a person's attachment style in the 18–30 age range. The proposed study is a quantitative
analysis where we have taken a convenience sample of 270 people with prior cases of
parental infidelity and this study examines if infidelity and prior gender perception can be a
predictive factor of self-reported characteristics of how a person typically feels in emotionally
intimate relationships and how parental infidelity affects those characteristics
Keywords: Gender perception, Parental infidelity, attachment styles, intimate relationships
Introduction
Association between parental infidelity and attachment styles
Regardless of whether the infidelity is emotional or sexual in character, couples who
encounter it frequently report high levels of distress (Leeker & Carlozzi, 2014). Children who
are directly or indirectly exposed to the secrecy and falsehoods that frequently accompany
infidelity may end up trapped in the middle of loyalty disputes between their parents,
