Attachment: The role of the father

Question 1

Which role is neglected in attachment of babies?

Answer 1

Father role

Question 2

What did Grossman et al study + what kind of study?

Answer 2

• Longitudinal study
• Studied how babies attached into adolescence

Question 3

What did Grossman et al find?

Answer 3

Quality of attachment with mothers and quality of father’s play
- both related to quality of attachments in adolescence

Question 4

Who conducted a meta-analysis study?
- What did she say

Answer 4

Amodia-Bidakowska
- Father spend significant time in playful interactions including ROUGH AND TUMBLE

Question 5

What did Amodia-Bidakowska find?

Answer 5

• The frequency of father’s play initiate up to preschool
• Their play contributes to social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes (SEC outcomes)

Question 6

What did Field do?

Answer 6

Filmed 4 month old babies

Question 7

What did Field find?

Answer 7

• Primary caregivers father doing the same actions as primary caregiver mother (e.g. smiling and holding) can stimulate attachment formation

Question 8

In Field’s study, what is formed when fathers spend more time smiling and holding (reciprocity & synchrony), as a primary caregiver mother would usually do?

Answer 8

Attachment formation

Question 9

What did McCallum & Gollumbok find? (AO3)

Answer 9

That children from single mothers and lesbian families do not develop differently from heterosexual families.
- Because single mothers and lesbian families adopt a distinctive father role within their own families.

Question 10

Conclusion of Jones, Foley, and Golombok’s research

Answer 10

• The findings revealed that there were no differences in the quality of parenting and in the child’s behaviour between the groups (mother is primary caregiver, father is primary caregiver, and both as dual earners)