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The theory of attachment brought to front stage the need of the child to form stableconnections with persons capable to offer protection, love, acceptance. Sometimes,during this process, the child has give up parts of his/her authentic self in a lenghtyprocess of adapting to the harsh reality he/she lives in. The pattern of attachment,formed in early childhood, relative to the representative persons in his/her life, tends tobe maintained also during the lifetime and to influence the manner of interacting withother...

The objective of the study is to identify the differences between the use of social copingmethods used by adults, determined by the presence of verbal abuse until the age ofeighteen, and the presence of an alcoholic parent during childhood and adolescence.The instruments used in the research were: The SACS Strategic Coping Scale, constructedby Stevan E. Hobfoll, Carla L. Dunahoo, Jeannine Monnier, Michael R. Hulsizer, andRobert Johnson in 1993 and revised in 1998, and the ACE (Adverse ChildhoodExperiences) .The re...