Influence of Early Attachment on Later Relationships
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- Influence of early attachment on later relationships
- Internal Working Model
- A child having their first relationship with their primary attachment figure forms a mental representation of the relationship
- This acts as a blueprint for future relationships
- The blueprint will affect the nature of their future relationships
- A child who experienced a loving relationship with a reliable caregiver will assume that's how relationships are meant to be
- A child with poor attachment will expect that of future relationships
- Securely attached infants will seek out functional relationships and behave functionally within them
- Poorly attached infants will struggle to form attachments the first place
- Attachment type
- Associated with the quality of peer relationships in childhood
- Securely attached infants have the best quality childhood friendships. Those insecurely attached later have friendship difficulties
- Myron-Wilson and Smith (1998) looked at bullying and attachment type
- Secure children were unlikely to be involved in bullying
- Insecure-avoidant were most likely to be victims
- Insecure-resistant were most likely to be bullies
- Evidence for the effect on romantic relationships
- McCarthy (1999) studied 40 women who had been assessed as infants to establish their early attachment type
- Securely attached infants had the best relationships and friendships
- Insecure-resistant had difficulty maintaining friendships
- Insecure-avoidant had difficulty with intimacy in romantic relationships
- Securely attached infants are more likely to have good and longer lasting relationships
- Patterns of attachment behaviour are linked to romantic relationships
- McCarthy (1999) studied 40 women who had been assessed as infants to establish their early attachment type
- Effects on future parenting
- Internal working model affects parenting ability
- Parenting style is based on the internal working model, so attachment type is passed through family
- Bailey et al (2007)
- Mother-baby attachment was assessed using the strange situation
- Mother-own-mother attachment was assessed using an adult interview
- Majority of women had the same attachment to their infant as they did to their own mother
- Internal Working Model
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