Shaima Ahmed Farouk
Posted in: Sunday 17 January 2021 – 1:58 PM | Last update: Sunday 17 January 2021 – 1:58 PM
In critical moments and pressures that surround a person in all aspects of life, especially at a time of epidemic that needs a lot of human relations to overcome its strong crises, and this precaution is not limited to infants and young children, but we all need some closeness and intimate touches with people close to feel safe.
Japanese culture stresses the importance of human touches that express safety and containment, such as cuddling and ranks on the shoulder or hand, while Western research took a lot of time to confirm these feelings and their effect on the psychological health of the individual, this is the issue that the psychologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland explored, Aynek Deprott and colleagues in a study they recently published in the Journal of Social and Personality Psychology.
Deprott and his colleagues first consider the role of attachment style in intimate relationships. Attachment refers to your way of interacting with the other party in times of stress and stress. It first develops in childhood and continues with people even in their old age.
David Lorden, a professor of psychology at Georgia Joint College, says that the lack of exposure to touches that express safety and intimacy in childhood may lead to two types of characters, either they have a great need for these feelings or fear them and avoid them, according to the “Psychology Today” site.
De Brot and his colleagues’ research question was about “Do people move away from these moments because they do not provide them with any psychological benefit, or can they feel feelings but prevent them hesitation?” To explore these questions, the researchers conducted 3 separate studies, the first was a survey of more than 1,600 individuals with whom there were friendships And kinship and bonding, and then another survey on 66 couples in the laboratory, and the third study was a daily study of 98 couples for 28 days, to reach accurate results.
Lorden says research has indicated the importance of “attachment,” intimate touches between people, because participants generally reported higher levels of positive mood and psychological improvement as a result of the experiments conducted, and this clearly indicates that physical contact is beneficial even for those who have some apprehension about it because of Their lack of access to it in childhood, and Depreot and colleagues suggest that therapists develop techniques to help those who have an “avoidance attachment” approach to overcome their distaste for physical contact and human moments in a time of stress.
Another result is that most people feel comfortable with relationships that give them feelings of security and love, whether at the level of kinship, spouses, friends, and others, and that people who have an avoidant attachment style tend to bounce back from physical contact although this will benefit them psychologically.
Although attachment style is established in childhood, there is a lot of evidence that it can change in adulthood, when a person can develop enough self-awareness to know his own attachment style and the feelings he needs from others.
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