Turning to people who experienced high early caregiving, we found that individuals who had high early care/high adult romantic quality had a moderate amount of symptoms across time. Although this finding was not anticipated, those who experienced low early care/high adult romantic quality reported very few symptoms, setting up an extreme contrast for the number of symptoms reported by the high early care/high adult romantic quality group. This again maps onto the conceptually-related finding that people who hold insecure representations of early caregiving experiences but positive adult romantic experiences have romantic relationship perceptions that are even more favorable than people who hold secure representations of early caregiving and adult romantic experiences (Treboux et al., 2004).
