Influence of early attachments on childhood and adult relationships+role of the internal working model

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  • Created on: 01-05-17 20:05
what is the internal working model?
suggested that a child's first relationship with their primary attachment figure forms a mental representation of the child and the relationship acts as a template for all future relationships
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who suggested this?
bowlby
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what is the continuity hypothesis?
specific attachment types of children are also reflected in their adult relationships
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what is the continuity hypothesis based on?
the internal working model
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which type of children have better friendships and are the least likely to bully or be bullied?
securely attached children
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what did belsky find?
3-5yr old securely attached children were more curious, resistant, self-confident, got along better with other children and were more likely to form close relationships
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which type of children have higher expectations that others are friendly and trusting?
securely attached
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what does this enable?
easier relationships with others and closer relationships as they are prepared to be trusting and let people get close to them
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what did smith assess?
attachment type and bullying involvement using standard questionnaires in 196 children aged 7-11 from london
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what did smith find?
secure children are unlikely to be involved in bullying. insecure avoidant children were more likely to be victims and insecure resistant were most likely to be bullies
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who suggests that securely attached children are more confident and they are less likely to be the target of bullies for fear that they will stand up for themselves as they have close friendships and bullies risk them having the support of others?
belsky
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which type of children have longer lasting romantic relationships?
securely attached
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what did hazan and shaver do?
the love quiz
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what was the procedure of hazan and shaver's study?
analysed the responses from 620 respondents of a love quiz they published in the rocky mountain news (small american town newspaper)
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how many of their sample were men?
205
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how many of their sample were women?
415
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what age range was the sample?
14-82 years old
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what percentage were heterosexual?
91%
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what percentage were married?
42%
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what percentage were divorced or widowed?
28%
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what percentage were co-habiting?
9%
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what percentage were dating?
31%
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what did questionnaires firstly aim to assess?
current or most important relationship
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what was did they secondly ask questions about?
attitudes to love as an assessment of the internal working model
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what was thirdly asked?
attachment history to identify current and childhood attachment types by asking respondents to pick which of three descriptions best applied to their inner feelings about romantic relationships
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what type of attachment and percentage found it easy getting close to others, feeling comfortable depending on them, dont worry about being abandoned
securely-56%
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what type of attachment and percentage was comfortable being close to others, difficult to trust them, difficult to depend on them, nervous when someone wants to get close
insecure avoidant-23%
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what type of attachment and percentage find others are reluctant to get as close as they would like, worry partner doesn't really love them, and want's to merge completely with another person but this scares people away
insecure resistant-19%
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what percentage of securely attached find it easy to fall in love and feel themselves beginning to fall in love often?
9%
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what percentage of insecure avoidant find it easy to fall in love and feel themselves beginning to fall in love often?
4%
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what percentage of insecure resistant find it easy to fall in love and feel themselves beginning to fall in love often?
20%
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what percentage of securely attached see intense romantic love is common at beginning but rarely lasts forever
28%
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what percentage of insecure avoidant see intense romantic love is common at beginning but rarely lasts forever
41%
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what percentage of insecure resistance see intense romantic love is common at beginning but rarely lasts forever
34%
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what percentage of secure attached find it rare to find someone you can fall in love with?
43%
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what percentage of insecure avoidant see intense romantic love is common at beginning but rarely lasts forever
66%
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what percentage of insecure resistant see intense romantic love is common at beginning but rarely lasts forever
56%
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what percentage of secure attached believe that the kind of head over heels love in movies doesn't exist
13%
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what percentage of insecure avoidant believe that the kind of head over heels love in movies doesn't exist
25%
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what percentage of insecure resistant believe that the kind of head over heels love in movies doesn't exist
28%
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what correlatyion did hazan and shaver find?
a positive correlation between attachmed type and love experiences, the more attached, the more positive they found their love experiences
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which attachment types were more vulnerable to loneliness?
both insecure types
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which attachment type tends to real jealousy and fear of intimacy?
avoidant
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what did Bailey study?
attachments of 99 mothers to their babies and their own mothers using the strange situation and an adult attachment interview
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what did bailey find?
the majority of women had the same attachment classification both to the babies and their own mothers
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what did quinton compare?
50 women raised in institutions with 50 women raised at home
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what did quinton find?
when the women were in their 20s the ex institutional women experienced extreme difficulties acting as parents and more of their children has spent time in care
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