role of the father

Question 1

what did schaffer and emmerson found out about primary attachemnts?

Answer 1

• primary attachment with their mother
  ● In only 3% of cases the father
  ● In 27% of cases the father was the joint primary attachment figure
• 75% of infants formed secondary attachments with their father by the age of 18 months

Question 2

Grossmann (2002)

Answer 2

• longitudinal study
• parent’s behaviour and its relationship to the quality of children’s attachments into their teens
• Found that quality of attachment with the father was less important than quality of attachment with the mother

found that fathers play had an important role in their children’s development, involving play and stimulation = quality of attachment

Question 3

Field (1978)

Answer 3

• filmed 4-month-old-babies
• primary caregiver fathers spent more time smiling, imitating, and holding infants than secondary caregiver fathers
• Reciprocity and interactional synchrony
• Father can be more nurturing and that gender is not key but rather the level of resoponsiveness to needs of the child