Hazan and Shaver

Question 1

aim

Answer 1

To see the association between attachment an adult relationships

Question 2

procedure

Answer 2

Analysed 620 replies to love quiz printed in an. American local newspaper
- The first section assessed the respondents current or most important relationship, the second section assessed general love experiences, the third section assessed attachment type by asking response to choose which of three statement describes them best

Question 3

findings

Answer 3

56%- securely attached, 25% insecure avoidant, 19% insecure resistant

-avoidant respondents Tended to reveal jealousy and fear of intimacy

Question 4

Limitation of methodological issues

Answer 4

most studies do not make use of the strange situation and instead use self-report questions

• this is a weakness because of social desirability bias and it involves retrospective data, so involves memory which can be inaccurate and you may forget certain things
• Therefore longitudinals study would be more valid

Question 5

limitation, contradictory evidence

Answer 5

Hazan and Shaver support childhood attachment predicting adult relationships due to The fact that attachment history is the same as your current attachment type
-however are the researchers have found little relationship between quality of an infant and adolescent attachment, so there must be other factors such as a parents divorce or having siblings which can influence development of attachment

Question 6

Limitation, childhood attachment an adult relationships are correlational

Answer 6

A problem with correlations is it only looks at two co-variables, suggesting that only a relationship between early attachment and later attachment exist
-There could be extraneous variables that may be involved such as parenting style or Childs temperament, so the personality (if they’re shy or not)