Ainsworth- Strange situation A03
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- Created on: 07-12-20 15:37
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- The strange situation- A03
- Support for validity
- The attachments formed are strongly predictive for later development
- Babies assessed as secure typically go on to have better outcomes in many areas, ranging from success at school to having romantic relationships and friendships in adult hood
- Insecure-resistant attachment is associated with bullying in later childhood (Kokkinos 2007) and adult mental health problems (Ward et al 2006)
- This evidence is for the validity of the concept as it can explain subsequent outcomes
- Good reliability
- The different observers watching the same children generally agreed on the attachment type
- This agreement may be because the controlled conditions or because the behavioural categories are easy to observe
- Bick et al (2012) looked at the inter-reliability. They found the observers found agreement on attachment types for 94% of tested babies
- Meaning hat we can be confident that the attachment types identified doesn't just depend on who's observing them
- The test may be culture bound
- Cultural differences in childhood experiences may respond differently to the strange situation
- Also, caregivers from different cultures behave differently to the Strange Situation
- Takahashi (1990) has noted that the test doesn't really work in Japan because Japanese mothers are rarely separated from their babies meaning they have high levels of separation anxiety
- In the reunion stage the mothers rushed to the baby and scooped them up meaning the child's response was hard to observe
- Support for validity
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