Attachment figues
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- Created on: 28-03-16 15:12
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- Attachment Figures
- Parent - infant interactions
- Mother-infant
- Schaffer and Emerson (1964) found that majority of babies did become attached to their mother
- Within a few months formed a secondary attachments to other family members, including father
- 75% of infants formed a attachment to their father by 18 months
- Within a few months formed a secondary attachments to other family members, including father
- Schaffer and Emerson (1964) found that majority of babies did become attached to their mother
- Mother-infant
- Multiple attachments and The role of the father
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Observational Study
- Showed how babies form multiple attachments around the age of 10 to 11 months
- 18 months - 13% single attachment, 31% 5 or more attachments
- Observational Study
- Fathers behavioural style is different to mothers
- play rather than caretaking behaviours
- Encourage them to take risks
- play rather than caretaking behaviours
- 3 dimensions
- Interaction - how the father engages with the infant (quantity)
- Accessibility - how physically and emotionally accessible he is (quality)
- Responsibility - the extent to which he takes on 'caretaking' tasks
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Fathers as primary carers
- Adopt behaviours more like mothers
- Tiffany Field (1978)
- Filmed 4 month old babies
- Face to face interaction, PCG mother anf father, SCG father
- PCG father spend more time with infants then SCG fathers
- Face to face interaction, PCG mother anf father, SCG father
- Filmed 4 month old babies
- Level of response not the gender
- A03
- Inconsistent findings on fathers
- Cannot easily answer a simple question the layperson often asks: what is the role of the father
- If fathers have a distinct role why aren't children without fathers diferent?
- Grossman - secondary father is important
- Fathers role as secondary is not important
- MacCallum and Golobok 2004 - single or some sex parents d not develop any differently
- Fathers role as secondary is not important
- Grossman - secondary father is important
- Why don't fathers become PCG?
- Traditional gender roles
- Inconsistent findings on fathers
- Parent - infant interactions
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