We had 49 participants in the second study we conducted. Twenty-seven were females, and 22 were males. Their ages ranged from 15 to 61, and the mean age was 28. The standard deviation (the average amount that each person was away from the mean age) was 11.

Thirteen participants were currently single, 11 were casually dating, 12 were seriously dating, 4 were engaged, and 9 were married. Three had been divorced, and 17 had parents who had been divorced. Of the three who had been divorced, 2 had divorced parents, and 1 did not have divorced parents. However, because there were so few participants with divorced parents, we can't conclude that people are divorced are more likely to have divorced parents than not to have divorced parents.

People whose parents had divorced were not more or less likely to want to get married than people whose parents did not divorce. Additionally, people whose parents had divorced were not more or less likely to think that their marriage would last.

We had good internal reliability on our measure of anxious attachment style (.91) and on our measure of avoidant attachment style (.86). People whose parents had divorced did not have different levels of anxious or avoidant attachment than people whose parents did not divorce.

We had good internal reliability on our measure of parents' marital satisfaction (.97). There was no association between how happy people thought their parents' marriage was and how much they wanted to get married. There was also no association between how happy people thought their parents' marriage was and how long they thought their marriage would last.

There was no association between how happy people thought their parents' marriage was and how anxious their attachment style was. There was an association between how happy people thought their parents' marriage was and how avoidant their attachment style was. People who thought their parents' marriage was happier tended to have a less avoidant attachment style.

Although not directly related to our hypothesis about the role of parents' marriage: People with a more anxious attachment style are less likely to think that their marriage will last. People with a more avoidant attachment style are less likely to want to marry, and less likely to think that their marriage will last.