influecne of childhood and adolescent experiences
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- The Influence of Childhood and Adolescent experiences
- Relationship with peers
- Bee 1995
- during adolescence time spent with parents is reduced
- friendships become more intimate with higher disclosure of inner feelings and secrets
- Bees believes that peers are important for the transition from the protected place within the family
- Moore 1997
- Attachment style to main primary giver will influence when young people start sexual relationships
- 100 adolescents aged 14/15
- measured attachments style using the adult attachment interview
- asked close friend to assess the teens social acceptability
- those who were classes as secure teenagers were less likely to engage in risky sexual activities eg unprotected sex
- secure attachments help to prepare adolescents for adult sexual relationships
- Madsen 2001
- tested the effect of dating in adolescents on young adult romantic relationships
- 180 adolescents
- compared dating life at 15-17 on dating life 20-21
- low frequency lead to more meaningful relationships in young adulthood
- relationships in adolescence can be advantageous but too much can be maladaptive
- Bee 1995
- parent-child relationships
- The effect of abuse in childhood
- Springer et al 2007
- Individuals who have been abused are more likely to report increase rates of depression, anger, anxiety than non- abused individuals
- Alpert et al 1998
- childhood abuse who decrease their ability to trust and would feel isolated from other
- Van de kosk and Fisher 1994
- people who suffered childhood abuse had difficulty forming healthy attachments
- Springer et al 2007
- deterministic
- Kirk-Patrick and Hazan found that relationship breakdowns were associated with a shift from insecure to secure
- can be positive
- Simpson et al 2007
- Longitudinal study
- 25 years and 78 participants
- parents reported attachment style at one years old
- 6-8 teachers rated interaction with peers
- 16 participants described their close relationships
- as young adults their romantic partners were asked to describe their romantic experiences
- those who were securely attached were more expressive and emotionally attached to their romantic partner
- Longitudinal study
- difficult to study due to ethical reasons
- comparative study of a non human primate
- Harlows, rhesus monkeys
- monkeys with inadequate adult contact displayed inappropriate social and sexual behaviour as adults
- Reductionist
- Life events have a bigger impact
- eg divorce/ illness of parents
- Hamilton found that life events could move children from secure to insecure
- Life events have a bigger impact
- Hazar and Shaver
- wanted to test whether love in adulthood is directly related to the attachment type as a child
- love quiz in their local North American News paper
- quiz assessed current attachment styles and childhood attachment styles
- two samples
- one randomly selected from the newspaper
- one of students with the mean age of 18
- strong correlation securely attached lasted on average twice as long as insecure
- lots of data
- demand characteristics- social desirability
- retrospective so relies on memory
- The effect of abuse in childhood
- Relationship with peers
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