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Non-Normative Critical Life Events: Where Dyadic Coping And Attachment Meet, Talley Mortara
Non-Normative Critical Life Events: Where Dyadic Coping And Attachment Meet, Talley Mortara
Theses and Dissertations--Family Sciences
The aim of the current study was to examine both dyadic coping and anxious attachment following the experience of a critical non-normative life event. Pairfam, a nationally representative German sample, was used as a secondary data set for this quantitative study. Paired samples t-tests were used to analyze the data from 559 German couples to track statistically significant increases or decreases in the perception of dyadic coping responses and anxious attachment levels when a non-normative critical life event happened at some point in the previous two years. Results found that the partner of the anchor showed a statistically significant increase …