Influence Of Early Attachment On Later Relationships

Question 1

Childhood relationships

Answer 1

Affiliations with other people in childhood, including friends and classmates, and with adults such as teachers

Question 2

Adult relationships

Answer 2

Those relationships the child goes on to have later in life as an adult. These include friendships and working relationships but most critically relationships with romantic partners and the persons own children

Question 3

Internal working model

Answer 3

Our mental representation of the world, e.g. the representation we have of our relationship to our primary attachment figure. The model affects our future relationships because it carries our perception of what relationships are like

Question 4

Relationships in adulthood
(McCarthy)

Answer 4

Securely attached adults have better relationships with friends and partners

Question 5

Relationships in adulthood
(Hazan and Shaver)

Answer 5

Secure responders had better and longer- lasting relationships, avoidant responders had fear of intimacy

Question 6

Relationships in adulthood
(Bailey et al)

Answer 6

Mothers attachment type matched that of their mothers and their babies

Question 7

Influence of early attachment on layer relationships evaluation points- Research support

Answer 7

STRENGTH

Review (Fearon and Roisman) showed consistent links
e.g. disorganised type and mental disorders

Question 8

Influence of early attachment on layer relationships evaluation points- Validity issues with retrospective studies

Answer 8

LIMITATION

Self-report answers not always honest, and assumes that attachment type has remained the same into adulthood

Question 9

Influence of early attachment on layer relationships evaluation points- Confounding variables

Answer 9

LIMITATION

Associations between attachment type and later development may be due to e.g parenting styles or genes