Influence of Early Attachment on later relationships

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  • Influence on Later Relationships
    • Secure unlikely to be involved in bullying, I.A most likely to be bullied, I.R most likely to be bullies
    • Secure=good friendships, insecure=poor friendships
    • Hazan + Shaver 'Love Quiz' had 620 replies
      • 55%=secure, least likely to get divorced  due to stable relationship
      • 25%=avoidant, most likely to get divorced, rejecting mother, led to fear of intimacy in relationship
      • 19%=resistant, father perceived as unfair, led to obsessive/jealous relationship
      • Supports Bowlby's theory as IWM shows how to act in later life
    • Zimmerman found little relationship between quality of infant/adolescent attachment to parents
    • Evidence from questionnaires/interviews
      • Relies on Ps being honest - social desirability bias
      • Relies on accurate recollections of childhood - issue of validity

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