Attachment and later relationships
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- Created on: 31-03-16 13:14
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- ATTACHMENT AND LATER RELATIONSHIPS
- Relationships in later childhood
- Securely attached infants - best quality childhood friendships
- Insecurely attached - friendship difficulties
- Bullying behaviour can be predicted by attachment type
- Rowan Myron-Wilson and Peter Smith 1998
- Assessed attachment type and bullying behaviour
- Quesionnaire
- 196 children, 7-11 from London
- Quesionnaire
- Securely attached - unlikely to be involved
- Insecure avoidant - most likely to be victims
- Insecure resistant - most likely to be the bullies
- Assessed attachment type and bullying behaviour
- Relationships in adulthood and romantic partners
- Gerard McCarthy 1999
- 40 adult woman - already assessed as infants (attachment type)
- Securely - best adult friendship and romantic realtionship
- Insecure resistant - problems maintaining friends
- Insecure avoidant - struggled with intimacy in romantic relationships
- 40 adult woman - already assessed as infants (attachment type)
- Hazan and Shaver 1987
- AIM
- Association between attachment and adult relationships
- METHOD
- Analysed 620 replies to a 'love quiz'
- American local newspaper
- Quiz had 3 sections
- Respondents currents or most important relationship
- General love experiences e.eg number of partners
- Assessed attachment type - respondents to choose which of these statements best describes their feelings
- Analysed 620 replies to a 'love quiz'
- FINDINGS
- 56% securely
- Good and longer romantic experience
- 25% insecure avoidant
- Jealousy and fear if intimacy
- 19% insecure resistant
- 56% securely
- AIM
- Gerard McCarthy 1999
- Relationship in adulthood as a partent
- Attachment tends to be passed through generations of the family
- A03
- Most studies have issues with validity
- Questionnaires
- Depend on respondent being honest
- Lacks validity because it relies on accurate recollections
- Questionnaires
- Most studies have issues with validity
- Relationships in later childhood
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