Shaffer's stages of attachment
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- Schaffer's stages of attachment
- Asocial stage: first few weeks
- Baby's behaviour towards objects and humans similar
- Some preference familiar adults (more easily calmed by them)
- Babies happier in presence of other humans
- Indiscriminate attachment (2-7 months)
- Babies display more observable social behaviour - prefer people over objects
- Recognise and prefer familiar adults
- Attachment indiscriminate as attachment same towards all
- Specific attachment (7 months)
- Stranger and separation anxiety begin to show as baby forms specific attachment with primary caregiver
- Baby chooses person who is most interactive and responsive to reciprocity as primary care giver
- Multiple attachments (by 1 yr)
- Secondary attachments with other adults form
- Shaffer and Emerson (1964): stages of attachment
- Procedure
- 60 Glasgow babies, most from working class families
- Babies and mothers visited at home every month for a year and at 18 months
- Separation anxiety measured by asking mothers about their children's behaviour during everyday separations
- Stranger anxiety measured by asking mothers questions about their children's anxiety response to unfamiliar adults
- Findings
- 50% of babies showed separation anxiety towards a particular adults between 25-32 weeks of age
- Attachment tended to be with adults who were most interactive and sensitive to reciprocity
- 29% of babies had secondary attachments within a month of forming a primary attachment. Majority of infants had secondary attachments by 1 year
- Procedure
- Asocial stage: first few weeks
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