Monotrophic Attachment

Question 1

Scaffer and Emerson (1964)

Answer 1

• longitudinal study of 60 Glaswegian babies at monthly intervals for first 18 months of life and observed in family home
• 17% babies formed multiple attachments as soon as attachment behaviours formed
• by 4 months, 50% babies had formed 1+ attachments
• by 18 months, 18% had only one attachment (contradicts idea of Monotropy)
• however, babies protested more intensely from separation from a particular attachment figure

Question 2

Hasan and shaver (1987)

Answer 2

• love quiz questionnaire to see whether early attachments form a template/ model for later relationships in life
• Questions about measure of attachment with parents and individual beliefs about romantic relationships
• securely attached to parents = believed romantic relationships were trusting, enduring and accepting of partners faults
• avoidant attachment = fear of intimacy and reluctant to commit. They don’t need love to be happy
• anxious attachment = love involves obsession, desire, love at first sight, extreme sexual attention and jealousy. They worry partner will leave them and that they don’t love them

Question 3

Kilpatrick and Hazen (1994)

Answer 3

• replicated love quiz with same 620 respondents
• 70% had the same attachment style as years previously
• however may have desirability bias and sample bias (people who do newspaper quizzes)