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Optimism about Love Relationships: General vs Specific Lessons from One's Personal Experiences

Carnelley, Katherine B., Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie·1992·Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
DOI 10.1177/0265407592091001
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Experiences with love in one's family of origin (between parent and child and between parents) and in recent romantic involvements were explored to understand better people's optimism about their success in intimate relationships. Two types of optimism were distinguished: optimism about future relationships in general, and optimism about marriage in particular. Experiences in own dating relationships predicted respondents' optimism about future love relationships, whereas one's parents' relationship with each other predicted optimism about marriage. Fourth-year college students' optimism judgments were more influenced by their own experiences in intimate relationships than were first-year students' judgments. It appears that specific lessons from personal experience are applied selectively to judgments about our success in intimate relationships. More general beliefs about relationships, measured through attachment style, seem to be broadly applied, for attachment style was associated with both types of optimism. Relationship with parents did not directly predict either type of optimism, yet the mother-child relationship emerged as the most powerful predictor of attachment style, suggesting the fundamental importance of our earliest experiences to our generalized relationship schemas.

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  1. Bowlby, J., 1973, Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment and Loss, Vol. 2)
  2. Hazan, C., 1987, `Adult Attachment Questionnaire', unpublished scale, University of Denver
  3. Shaver, P., 1989, `Personal Communication. Romantic Love and Attachment'
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Authors
Carnelley, K. B., & Janoff-Bulman, R.
Affiliations
University of Massachusetts
ORCID
Carnelley, Katherine B.
Venue
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1992-02
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
5-20
ISSN
  • 0265-4075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3608
DOI
10.1177/0265407592091001
OpenAlex
W2123973098
Cited by
139
References
9
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords
intimate relationships, romantic relationships, family of origin, parent-child relationship, parental relationships, attachment styles, university students, dating experiences

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