An exploratory study of romantically involved young adults on love attitude; parent and peer attachment; conflict resolution; social influence and college learning
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2019-07
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Humans are social being who are driven by their need to belong in society. Young adulthood is a stressful yet another important stage of life offering different life-changing experiences. It opens the door for different goals, responsibilities, priorities, role and competence that helps young adults in developing attachment behaviour for example, in terms of how much emotional support is requested and from whom the support is sought. Parent and peer relationship are the most important, influential, and supreme relationships in an individual's life but when transition from school to college takes place the breaking away process from the primary attachment bonds occur at a slower pace before young adults can develop new relationship with others. Therefore, young adults tend to seek emotional security from the opposite sex by entering into romantic relationship, in order to fill the void of parental warmth. Therefore, it is fair to say that younger individuals experience a need to be attached to their counterparts through the bond of love. Love is a feeling of strong emotional attachment and attraction. It covers a wide range of positive and strong emotional and mental state, from the most sublime virtue or good habits, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. Thus comparative study was undertaken to assess the love attitude of romantically involved young adults; parent and peer attachment; conflict resolution; social influence and college learning. The study was carried out in - G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar and P.A.U., Ludhiana. Snow-ball sampling technique was used by the researcher to identify the prospective respondents (400) under two populations i.e 200 romantically involved young adults from G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar and 200 romantically involved young adults from P.A.U., Ludhiana.To assess the assumed objectives following tools were used, Love attitude Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986), Behavior System Questionnaire (Furman, Simon, Shaffer,& Bouchey, 2002), Romantic Partner Conflict Resolution Scale (Zacchilli, Hendrick, & Hendric, 2009), and The College Learning Effectiveness Inventory (Newton, Kim, Wilcox, & Beemer, 2008) and Social Influence on Romantic Relationship Scale (Ganth, 2013). Tools were distributed and explained to individual respondents and were requested for an honest, unbiased and true response with the assurance of confidentiality. On comparing the data for romantically involved young adults of G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar and P.A.U., Ludhiana, it was evident that romantically involved young adults of P.A.U., Ludhiana were having significantly higher Ludus (game-playing) love style whereas; Eros love style were significantly higher in romantically involved young adults of G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar. Furthermore, on assessing parent and peer attachment of romantically involved young adults it was found that there was no significant difference in parent and peer attachment of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, and PAU, Ludhiana. At the same time, it was also evident that there was no significant difference in areas of conflict and conflict resolution strategy of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar and PAU, Ludhiana. Interestingly it was observed that there was no significant difference in social influence on romantically involved young adults of GBPUA&T, Pantnagar and PAU, Ludhiana. On the contrary, it was evident that the respondent’s age and duration of their romantic relationship made significant contribution in various domains of college learning.
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