2: role of the father

Question 1

multiple attachments

Answer 1

formed to different people for different purposes. they are able to make more social relationships as they are more used to it, if on is lost they have several others

Question 2

role of the father

Answer 2

previously the fathers would go out to work and mothers stayed home. now 10% of parents to care for children are fathers whilst their partners work.
seen as a playmate as they are more physical, unpredicatable and exciting .

Question 3

degree of sensitivity

Answer 3

more secure attachments to their children, several important fathers who are more sensitive to their children needs

Question 4

type of attachment to their own parents

Answer 4

single-parent fathers tend to form similar attachments with their children that they had with their parents

Question 5

marital intimacy

Answer 5

the intimacy the father has with their partner affects the attachment he will have with his children

Question 6

supportive co-parenting

Answer 6

the amount of support a father gives to his partner in helping to care for children affects the type of attachment he will have with hus children

Question 7

important factors that explore whether father have secure attachments to their children

Answer 7

degree of sensitivity, type of attachment to their own parent, marital intimacy, supportive co-parenting

Question 8

Gieger 1996

Answer 8

fathers play interactions were more exciting and pleasurable than mothers as mothers are more affectionate and nuturing

Question 9

lamb 1987

Answer 9

children prefer interacting with fathers when theyre in a positive emotional state
fathers that become main care providers seem able to quickly develop more sensitivity to childrens needs

Question 10

hardly 1999

Answer 10

fathers are less able than mothers to detect low levels of infant distress, suggesting they are less suitable as primary attachment figures.

Question 11

research that shows fathers play a key role in development of of childrens social development

Answer 11

children with secure attachments to their fathers have better relationships with peers, less problematic behaviour, able to regulate emotions , when fathers spend more time with their children they develop a more secure attachment

without father: worse in school, more aggresive particularly boys,

Question 12

Pederson 1979

Answer 12

most studies have focused on female single mothers from poor social-economic backgrounds so it may be these factors related to poverty that produce these negative outcomes and not the fathers absence