Stages of attachment
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- Created on: 23-02-16 11:10
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- Schaffer's stages of attachment
- Aims
- To investigate attachments in the first 18 months of life
- Design
- Longitudinal study
- Method
- 60 babies in Glasgow visited in home fore first 18 mnths of life. Visited at monthly intervals and a regular pattern was identified in the development of attachment. Their interactions with carers was observed and carers interviewed
- Findings
- Attachments most likely to form with those who respond accurately to babys signals, not person who spent most time with or fed them. S+E called this sensitive reponsivness. Mnay babies had several attachments by 10 mnths.
- Stages of attachment
- Asocial
- Indiscriminate attachment
- Specific attachment
- Multiple attachment
- Evaluation
- A weakness is that a key problem with longitudinal studies is attrition (people dropping out). This affects the sample size. Therefore there is a lower external validity because you cannot generalise from a small sample
- A strength is that it was not done as a laboratory observation like the strange situation was. Therefore there is a higher ecological validity because it was done in a natural environment
- A weakness is that it was only done on Glasewegian infants and their carers. Therefore there is a low population validity and so cannot be generalised to other countries and cultures
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