There are some studies done in which there is a positive correlation between one type of attachment and a person's well-being in life. However, that correlation is not necessarily true because a person's childhood attachment to his/her parent(s) is such a small factor in what determines a person's overall well-being in life. The DV, being well-being, involves so many other IVs other than the one attachment being looked at. A variable that more so influences a person's well-being is the environment in which he/she grew up in. If a child grew up in a stable, two-parent household with lots of care and affection, the child would probably have a higher overall well-being in later adulthood, whereas if the child grew up in a troubling household in which abuse by the parent(s) was involved, that child would probably have a lower overall well-being in later life. Thus, attachment as a child toward a parent may not totally influence a person's well-being when he/she is older.
