Multiple Attachments: Role Of The Father

Question 1

What age did Schaffer and Emerson find infants forming secondary attachments

Answer 1

After 7 months (a few weeks or months after)

Question 2

What percent of cases were the father the first attachment

Answer 2

3%

Question 3

In what percent of cases was the father the joint attachment figure

Answer 3

27%

Question 4

Who did Schaffer and Emerson find the main secondary attachment was after 18 months

Answer 4

Fathers, 75% of infants secondary attachment

Question 5

What did Grossman do?

Answer 5

In 2002 he carried out a longitudinal study looking at parents behaviour and its quality of children’s attachment in their teens

Question 6

What did grossman find out about quality of attachment

Answer 6

The bonds the child with their father had no effect on how they developed but the bond with the mother effected their development

Question 7

What did Grossman find out about quality of play

Answer 7

Teens had better friendships if their dad played with them well

Question 8

What role do fathers have and not mothers

Answer 8

Stimulation not nursing

Question 9

What does Field (1978) suggest about responsiveness

Answer 9

Fathers, if primary care giver, will adopt behaviours of mother’s, suggesting that the level of responsiveness is more important to forming attachments than gender of parent

Question 10

Issues with the role of the father

Answer 10

• Appears that children without fathers are no different

- Research fails to provide a clear answer about why fathers aren’t usually primary attachments

Question 11

Strengths of the role of the father

Answer 11

• Research has important economic implications