Childhood Abuse In Unger And Luca

In Unger and Luca's article, they state that there are many studies that support the hypothesis childhood abuse has negative effects on attachment to be true. However, they stated at the time of his research there are very few studies that explore the adult attachment issues that remain once abused children leave adolescents. He predicted that adults who had been abused in childhood are more likely to have fearful-avoidant and dismissing-avoidant styles of attachment. (Unger & Luca 2014 p.225) Unger and Luca put together a study group of students over the age of 18 that were made up of 552 females and 294 males who were fluent in English at the University of Manitoba. Their procedure consisted of group setting of 10-300 students at a time who