Simpson (longitudinal study)
25 years observing 78 participants through infancy, childhood, adolscence and adulthood.
asked;
parents about attachment type, participants about close friends, teachers about peer interaction and participants partners about relationship experience
found securely attached more socially competent as children, more socially competent meant you were closer to friends at 16, closer to friends means more romantically expressive and more attached to partner
- Supports claim that early social development experience impacts adult relationships
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