... & Callan,1994), and violence in couple relationships (Dutton et al., 1994; Roberts, 1998). Besharat M.A (2003) in his study of attachment style and marital conflict attempts to examine the relationship of attachment and marital conflict. He states that over the last decade the attachment theory has been used to help explain how adult relationships function. He also suggests that attachment theory should also focus on the issue of whether 'attachment history' has any relation to later marital conflicts. Therefore the aim of his study was to find whether there is any relationship between earlier attachment style and marital conflict. The author begins by discussing how researchers like Ainsworth et al (1978) described patterns of attachment and how these were then used by Shaver and Hazan (1993) to describe romantic love as attachment. Both use three stages; namely secure, avoidant and anxious ambivalent, to illustrate the different types of attachment styles. As Bowlby ...

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