Influences of early childhood attachments on future relationships
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- Created on: 04-04-22 15:54
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- The influence of early attachments on childhood and adult relationships
- Romantic relationships in adulthood
- Hazan and Shaver - the Love Quiz
- Procedure: analysed 620 responses to a love-quiz posted in a local newspaper.
- Findings: 56% securely attached; 25% avoidant; 19% resistant. Those that were type B were most likely to have good and long-lasting relationships.Avoidant respondents were jealous and had a fear of intimacy.
- Procedure: analysed 620 responses to a love-quiz posted in a local newspaper.
- Hazan and Shaver - the Love Quiz
- Relationships in later childhood
- Type B children form the most secure childhood friendships
- Insecure resistant children are most likely to. Be bullies
- Insecure-avoidant children are imost likely to be a victim of bullying
- Relationships in adulthood as a parent
- IWM influences an individual’s own parenting style. It is based on the parenting they grew up with
- Attachment styles are as such “passed down” through generations
- Bailey et al 1999: studied 99 women’s attachments to their own mother and to their child
- The majority had the same attachment type both as their baby and their mother.
- IWM influences an individual’s own parenting style. It is based on the parenting they grew up with
- The internal working model
- IWM is a schematic template which is based on an individual’s first attachments and shapes later relationships
- Someone with a positive IWM will seek out loving relationships which mimic the one they experiences in childhood
- Someone with a negative IWM may seek out harmful relationships which mimic their experiences in childhood
- Romantic relationships in adulthood
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