Young adults' attachment styles and beliefs about the "true love"

During their lives, people show different attachment styles in their close relationships, depending on inner working models about themselves and others they have formed in childhood. These working models reflect on two attachment dimensions – anxiety and avoidance. Depending on the level of anxiety and avoidance in their romantic relationships, people show one of four attachment styles: secure, preoccupied, dismissive and fearful (Bartholomew,...