Ainsworth's Stange Situation
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- AINSWORTH'S STRANGE SITUATION (1969)
- AIM
- Observe key attachment behaviours as a means of assessing the quality of a child's attachment to a caregiver
- METHOD
- Controlled observation
- Measure the security of attachment a child displays towards caregiver
- Laboratory
- Two-way mirror
- Behaviours used to judge:
- Proximity seeking
- Exploration and secure base behaviour
- Stranger anxiety
- Separation anxiety
- Response to reunion
- Seven episodes
- 1. Child encouraged to explore
- Exploration and secure base
- 2. Stranger comes in and tries to interact with child
- Stranger anxiety
- 3. Caregiver leaves child and stranger together
- Separation and stranger anxiety
- 4. Caregiver returns and stranger leaves
- Reunion and secure base behvaviour
- 5. Caregiver leaves child alone
- Separation anxiety
- 6. Stranger returns
- Stranger anxiety
- 7. Caregiver returns and is reunited with the child
- Reunion behaviour
- 1. Child encouraged to explore
- Controlled observation
- FINDINGS
- 3 main types of attachment
- Type A
- Insecure-avoidant attachment (20-25%)
- Explore freely
- Do not seek proximity or show secure base behaviour
- Little reaction when PCG leaves or comes back
- Do don't require comfort at reunion
- Little stranger anxiety
- Explore freely
- Insecure-avoidant attachment (20-25%)
- Type B
- Secure attachment (60-75% British)
- Explore happily but regularly go back to PCG
- Proximity seeking and secure base behaviour
- Moderate separation distress and stranger anxiety
- Accept comfort from the PCG in reunion
- Explore happily but regularly go back to PCG
- Secure attachment (60-75% British)
- Type C
- Insecure-resistant attachment (3% British)
- Explore less
- Seek greater proximity
- Huge stranger and separation distress
- Resist comfort at reunion
- Explore less
- Insecure-resistant attachment (3% British)
- Type A
- 3 main types of attachment
- A03
- Support for validity
- Secure = better outcomes in many areas
- Insecure-resistant = bullying in childhood and adult mental health
- Good reliability
- Very good inter-rater reliablilty
- Behaviours categories are easy to observe
- Different observers agree on classification of the child
- Bick et al. 2012
- Looked at inter-rater reliability in a team of stange situation observers
- Agreement on 94% of attachment type
- Looked at inter-rater reliability in a team of stange situation observers
- One more attachment type
- Main and Solomon 1986
- Minority of children display atypical attachments that are not A B or C
- Called disorganised attchment
- Mix of resistant and avoidant
- Called disorganised attchment
- Minority of children display atypical attachments that are not A B or C
- Main and Solomon 1986
- Support for validity
- AIM
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