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Attachment and communication in romantic relationships
MARELOVÁ, Anna
This thesis deals with the attachment and communication in romantic relationships. First, there are defined basic theoretical grounds of attachment in childhood, adulthood and romantic relationships. The work also specifies the romantic relationship and the communication in a romantic relationship and its division into four communication styles - assertive, passive, manipulative and aggressive. For the practical part there was chosen a quantitative research, whose main objective was to determine the relation between dimensions of attachment and communication styles in romantic relationships. The work also examined whether the communication styles differ according to the type of attachment. It was also researched whether there is a link between the lenght of relationship and the dimensions of attachment. The research sample consisted of data from 333 respondents. There were used two questionnaires - "ECR-R" for detecting the attachment of an individual and "Questionnaire of 4 styles of communication in romantic relationships." Attachment is made up of two dimensions - anxiety and avoidance. It was found out that with decreasing levels of anxiety and avoidance individuals use a more assertive style of communication. Conversely, those with higher levels of anxiety and avoidance, often prefer negative communication strategies (either passive, aggressive or manipulative). Further, it was discovered that depending on what attachment individuals have, they use different styles of communication. The research also showed that there is no significant connection between the dimensions of attachment and the length of relationship.
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