The present study is about the sexual behavior by the Attachment style and Love style. The relationships between the attachment style with parents and the attachment style with partner and love style by the attachment style were investigated. Also the...
The present study is about the sexual behavior by the Attachment style and Love style. The relationships between the attachment style with parents and the attachment style with partner and love style by the attachment style were investigated. Also the sexual behavior by the attachment style, love style, and sexual attitude was investigated.
The subjects of this study were 517 students among universities located in Seoul and Gyong-gi do. The Adult Attachment Scale, Love Attitudes Scale, Sexual Attitude, and Sexual Behavior Scale were administered to students.
The major finding of this study were as follows :
1. Attachment style with parents were in regular sequence secure, avoidant and anxious/ambivalent. The Attachment style with partner follow the order of secure, anxious/ambivalent and avoidant. Also attachment style showed significantly higher correlations between with parents and partner.
2. Love style were in due sequence agape, pragma, storge, eros, mania, and ludus. Also sexual attitude of students was conservative, and students who perceived parent's sexual attitude was more conservative. And among total subjects, more than 72% of population have experience of the other sex association, 82% of them have taken hand, 63% of them have kissed, 48% of them have petted brest or genital areas, and 29% of them have acted sexual intercourse.
3. Love style by the attachment style showed explicitly higher correlations from eros, ludus, agape. Avoidant was low in eros and agape, avoidant was high in ludus. Anxious/ambivalent was low in eros, anxious/ambivalent was high in ludus and agape. And secure was high in eros and agape, secure was low in ludus.
4. Sexual behavior by the attachment style showed significantly higher correlations about the other sex association, taking hand, kissing, patting brest or genital areas, and sexual intercourse.
5. Sexual behavior by the love style showed significantly higher correlations about eros, storge, and agape. The correlations between sexual behavior and eros and agape were positive. The correlations between sexual behavior and storge was negative.
6. According to student's and student who perceived their parents' sexual attitude, sexual behaviors were significantly different. Rates of the other sex association, taking hand, kissing, petting brest or genital areas, and sexual intercourse were high by opening of their sexual attitude. But student who perceived their parents' sexual attitude was only related to patting brest or genital areas, and sexual intercourse.
7. Among the variableness which affect sexual behavior of students, storge, mania, agape, student's sexual attitude were the influential factors in general. Especially, storge and sexual attitude were influential in all domains of sexual behavior of students. These result show that storge and student's sexual attitude are a very important variableness to be considered.