The Matching of Attachment Styles and its Influence to Love Relationship and Relationship Adjustment

In study one, 1518 college students were administered with questionnaires and finally 202 unmarried couples of college students were recruited for assessments on their attachment styles, love relationship and relationship adjustment. The researchers suggested five main types of matches of attachment styles.

They were 1) compatible type such as safe-safe match of attachment styles; 2) exclude type such as anxious-anxious match, expel-expel match, and avoidance-avoidance match; 3) complementary type such as safe-anxious match; 4) conflict type such as anxious-expel match; 5) one-way type such as safe- expel match. These five types of match of attachment styles of college student couples displayed different styles of love relationships and relationship adjustments.