Early parental bonds and emotional dependency in couple relationships of young Panamanian university students
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https://doi.org/10.37387/ipc.v10i1.271Keywords:
emotional dependency, parental bond, attachment, couple, youngAbstract
Introduction: the parental bond talks about the perception of the behavior and attitude of one or both parents concerning the subject’s childhood or adolescence. The concept is based on attachment theory, developed by the English psychoanalyst John Bowlby, which describes the effects produced by early experiences and the relationship with the first bonding figure in the child’s development. Objective: The objective of this research was to determine the link between early parental bonds and emotional dependency in couple relationships of young Panamanian university students. Material and methods: A non-experimental design study of a cross-sectional and relational type was carried out; it was applied to a sample of 383 university students from the Republic of Panama. For data collection, the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) by Parker, Tupling, and Brown (1979) and the Emotional Dependency Inventory (Inventario de Dependencia Emocional, IDE) by the psychologist Jesús Joel Aiquipa Tello (2012) were used. The data were analyzed descriptively and with the chi-square test. Results: Approximately half of the participants showed levels of emotional dependency that reflected pathological and non-adaptive affective bonding in their couple relationships. A significant percentage of those participants also displayed insecure attachment to their father figure. Discussion: The results coincide with what is stated in the literature, which indicates that the negative or positive characteristics of the attachment style with our parents o caretakers during childhood are going to determine the quality of our affective relationships in our adult lives. Conclusion: There exists a statistically significant link between the level of emotional dependency and the attachment style towards the parents or caretakers.
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