🟡 Attachment - Influence of Early Attachment

Question 1

Bowlbys internal working model

Answer 1

• early attachment provides blueprint for later attachments
• formation of first attachments will affect later relationships during childhood and adulthood

Question 2

What do early attachments affect

Answer 2

Peer friendships
Romantic relationships
Parenting styles

Question 3

Myron-Wilson and Smith (1998) study and findings

Answer 3

Studied 196 London children (7-11)

1. Insecure avoidant infants are most likely to be bullied
2. Insecure resistant infants are most likely to be bullies
3. Secure children unlikely to be affected by bullying

Question 4

Kearns 1994 findings

Answer 4

1. Attachment type is associated with quality peer relationships
2. Securely attached infants have better relationships in later childhood than insecurely attached infants, who have problems with friendships

Question 5

Hazan and shaver method and findings

Answer 5

• analysed 620 replies to the ‘love quiz’
• 56% =-0.56 secure, 25% =0.25 avoidant, 19% resistant
• secularly attached - love is enduring, mutual trust, less likely to get divorced
• insecure attached - felt love was rare, fell in and out of love easily, more likely to get divorced

Question 6

Bailey 2007 study for future attachments (parental style)

Answer 6

Relationship influence on parental style ,
Assessed 99 mothers/infants using strange situation and interviews
Majority of mothers had the same attachment type with their infant as with their mother

Question 7

Conclusion of influence of early attachment

Answer 7

There is a relationship / correlation between factors. Not causation