Influence of childhood on adult relationships
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- Created on: 21-04-16 08:45
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- Influence of childhood on adult relationships
- Bowlby's IWM
- Early attachments are templates for relationships later in life
- Later relationships likely to be continuation of early attachment types
- Hazen and Shaver's Love Quiz (1987)
- % of adults categorized as three attachment types closely matched to Ainsworth's original findings
- Correlation between adult's attachment types and type of parenting they recieved as children
- Securely attached
- Child: close to mum, able to be alone. Use mum s safe base. Show some separation/stranger anxiety. Good reunion behaviour
- Adult: Enjoy closeness and intimacy but are able to distance themselves. Long lasting relationships, good quality communication
- Evidence: Belsky (1994) 'partners accept more physical contact'
- Insecure-avoidant
- Child: Don't care who they are with as long as they are with someone. Not bothered about mum particularly
- Adult: More likely to cheat, lack commitment, less interested in long term and meaningful relationships
- Evidence: Hazan (1994) 'avoidant prefer sexual contact'
- Insecure resistant
- Child: Show high separation/stranger anxiety. Don't like being away from mum
- Adult: Clingy/needy, mother their partners, hard to sustain relationship
- Evidence: Kunce&Shaver (1994) 'compulsive care giving'
- Adult Attachment Interview
- Designed to measure whether people parent their children as they themselves were parented
- Main used 4 parental attachment types that correlated with **.
- Secure/autonomous- comfortable with intimacy- most common among parents of secure children
- Dismissing-minimise importance of attachment- most common in avoidant children
- Preoccupied- still trying to please parents- resistant children
- Unresolved- experienced traumatic childhood- disorganised children
- Evidence: Fonagy (1991) possible to predict attachment type of unborn child by finding out how individuals were parented
- Evaluation
- AAI has retrospective data, people may recall inaccuratley/social desirability
- **: parenting in other cultures may differ/affect results. Low in EV, dificult to generalsie
- Deterministic. Ignores free will, aren't guaranteed to be abnormal if you don't form attachments
- What about fathers attachments when mothers aren't around?
- Lots of research support- IWM valid
- ** easy to replicate, similar results obtained. Results are reliable
- Bowlby's IWM
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