Influence of Early Attachment on Childhood + Adult Relationships Flashcards
Hazan and Shaver Love Quiz
A - to see if there is a correlation between infant attachment type and future romantic relationships
P - 620 respondents aged 14-82 did love quiz to assess early attachment, adult attachment and mental models of relationships.
R - secure 56% - positive relationships, trust others and positive image of mother as caring
resistant 19% - preoccupied by love, fall in love easily, conflicting image of mother
avoidant 25% - fearful of closeness, love is not durable or necessary, remember mother as cold and rejecting
C - evidence to support continuity hypothesis and inner working model
Evidence early attachment does influence later relationships
Main et al tested babies at 18 months and 6 years and 100% secure and 75% insecure avoidant were the same at age 6
Hazan and Shaver love quiz found positive correlation
Kerns - securely attached infants go on to form best quality childhood friendships
Bailey - assesses 99 mothers and infants using strange situation and found infant and mothers had same attachment type
Evidence that early attachments do not influence later relationships
Clarke and Clarke - probabilistic as people are not doomed to always have bad relationships due to attachment type
Fraley- reviewed 27 samples where infants were assessed in infsnct and later reassessed and found low correlation (0.5-0.1)
Zimmerman - assessed infant attachment type and adolescent attachment to parents. Very little relationship
Evaluation - do early relationships influence our later ones?
STRENGTH - evidence to support - Hazan and Shaver positive correlation 56% secure 25% avoidant and 19% resistant. - however methodological issues as self report
LIMITATION - research to reject hypothesis- Fraley reviewed 27 samples where infants were assessed in infancy and later reassessed (1 month to 20 years later) and he found low correlations - criticises internal workings g model ans continuity hypothesis- further real life evidence that attachment can be reversed with Czech twins - PEELEEL explain results of Rutter and Czech twins
