The Influence of Attachment on Youth Development and Couple Relationships: Education and Coping in Young People

The article describes the attachment theory, its stages and the attachment types seen by Bowlby (1969) and Ainsworth (1970) as starting points in the socio-emotional evolution of young people. The attachment types highlighted in the literature by the test "The Strange Situation" (Ainsworth) were correlated with the responses to the "Adult Attachment Interview" and the link between the two categories of data was found. The influence of the type of attachment of the child to the parent/reference person tends to influence automatically the maturation degree of the young individual. But, in the process of development, other mechanisms such as coping and education have the role of regulating the individual-environment/problem relations to increase adaptability and satisfaction in life. The article values proactive coping and develops a strategy through which education can limit and overcome the negative predispositions of reactive attachment and coping.