Evaluation Of Early Attachment On Adult Relationships

Question 1

What did wood et al 2003 believe?

Answer 1

Quality of relationships results from the interaction of 2 people’s attachment styles - insecurely attached can have secure relationships if they in relationships with securely attached people

Question 2

How is the internal working model not fully supported?(Steele et all)

Answer 2

Found only a small correlation of 0.17 between having a secure attachment type on child and adult hood

Question 3

What did Zimmerman find?

Answer 3

Attachment style at 12-18 months didn’t predict quality of later relationships - life events experienced had a greater influence

Question 4

What did Hamilton find?(negative life events)

Answer 4

Securely attached children went on to have insecure attached relationships if they had negative life events

Question 5

What does the temperament hypotheses say?

Answer 5

Quality of adult relationships biologically determined - attempts to develop better quality relationships by changing attachment styles to +/ve ones wont work