Allan wrote:

What evidence has been adduced to show that this is in fact the case? Or
is this just one of those ideas that is favoured for no better reason than
that it is in accord with the dominant twentieth century view that adult
behaviour is largely determined by familial and/or environmental factors?

I write:

I am just going by what my Adolescence textbook (Arnett, 2004) says:

"Attachment styles between lovers have been found to resemble the parent-child attachment styles...secure, anxious-ambivalent, and anxious-avoidant."  The citation provided is as follows:

Shaver, P. R. & Hazan C. (1993).  Adult romantic attachmenr: Theory and evidence.  In D. Perlman & W. Jones (Eds.), Advances in personal relationships (Vol 4, pp. 29-70).  London: Jessica Kingsley.
 

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