L14 - Attachment Theory Flashcards
Describe attachment theory
Explanation of how an enduring emotional bond between two people forms over time
Securely attached can form what relationships
Healthy FtF relationships and don’t need PSRs
Insecure resistant are more likely to do what
More likely to form PSRs
Due to unfulfilled needs like intimacy
Insecure avoidant form PSRs why?
To avoid pain and rejection
Less likely to form close, emotional relationships
Describe proximity seeking
Wanting to reduce the distance between themselves and their attachment figure
Describe safe base
Use attachment figure as security to explore real-life relationships as no far of rejection from attachment figure
Describe protest disruption
Prolonged distress due to separation from of loss of the attachment figure
- related to research methods
Often use self-report techniques
+ related to insecurely attached attitudes
Positive attitudes towards obsessive behaviours
Pathological attachment types tend to stalk
+ related to stalkers
63% experiences loss of primary caregiver
50% sexually/physically/emotionally abused
Disturbed attachment related to extreme PSRs
Study found what about PSRs formation
Willingness to form PSRs determined by attachment type
Study found that insecure resistant form PSRs with who and why
With TV personalities to fulfil unmet/unrealistic demands
Cole and Leets found what about insecure attached
Least likely to form as find difficult to be intimate
Study found IR forming PSRs reflected
Reflects manifestation of desire for intimacy
+ of study related to supporting study
Participants lost someone close
Used media personalities during mourning as comfort (safe base)
Formed PSR
