In the present master's thesis, the author investigated the connection between the perception of the quality of attachment to parents, the attachment style in adulthood and the trust in partnership relations. The theoretical part describes the basics of the theory of attachment and the development of the child's attachment in early childhood. In the following, the author presents the attachment in adulthood, internal working models and their importance in shaping the beliefs and experiencing oneself, others and the world, the classification of attachment styles and their importance in adult romantic relationships. The following is a presentation of the concept of trust, the development of trust in childhood and its role in adult partnership relations. In the empirical part, a study was presented, involving 336 participants. Of this, 116 participants came from separate families, 209 of them came from the families in which the parents were married and 11 from the families where the parents lived in the unmarried community. The results confirmed that there is a statistically significant correlation between the perception of the attachment quality to parents, and the safe, fearful-avoidant and anxious attachment styles. The connection between the dismissing-avoidant style of attachment in adulthood and the perception of the relationship quality with parents is reflected in only one dimension (communicating with a mother). The survey confirmed that trust in a partner relationship is positively related to the safe attachment style in adulthood and is negatively linked to the anxious and avoidant attachment style. The results showed a statistically significant negative correlation between trust in a partnership relations and a dismissing-avoidance of attachment only in a subdimension that measures predictability in a partnership relations. The findings of the research also partially confirm the statistically significant difference in the attachment style in adulthood among persons with experience of parental separation in childhood and persons without experience of parental separation in childhood. Differences are also manifested at classifying into the safe style of attachment in adulthood. In determining differences in trust in a partnership between people with experience of parental separation in childhood and those who do not have this experience, the test showed that there is statistically significant difference between groups only in experiencing predictability in a partnership relations.
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