Tipos de apego y su relación con la infidelidad en adultos jóvenes

Abstract

The main objective of the present investigation was to relate the types of attachment with infidelity in young adults, using psychological tests such as CAMIR is in charge of evaluating the types of adult attachment and the Multidimensional Infidelity Inventory that evaluates infidelity, having a sample of 169 students, 52 men and 117 women between 18 to 25 years old who were selected under inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results show that 54 students present childhood trauma associated with the type of disorganized attachment, this being the highest, while the lowest score is with 11 students in the security that is of the secure attachment type, also family concern and selfsufficiency. With a grudge against parents with the same score of 11 students, they belong

to the

avoidant insecure attachment type. The multidimensional inventory of infidelity consists of four sub-scales, where it was found that the most prevalent unfaithful behavior is emotional desire with 136 students, while in the sub-scale of reasons for infidelity, 97 students were found where the motivation to be unfaithful is the dissatisfaction of the primary relationship, in addition it was evidenced that on the sub-scale of belief of infidelity 106 students believe that they would be unfaithful out of love for another person, while in the last sub-scale of consequence of infidelity 159 students see infidelity as negative within the couple relationship. The method used was the Pearson Correlation test processed in the SPSS, discovering that there is no correlation between the CAMIR and any of the dimensions of the multidimensional inventory of infidelity, thus concluding that the type of attachment formed with the closest caregiver did not is related to infidelity.