the role of the father

Question 1

how did Grossman et al (2002) suggest fathers are important as attachment figures

Answer 1

-play a greater role in play and stimulation and less of a role in emotional development
-shows fathers are important to attachment but in a different way from mothers

Question 2

what did Schaffer and Emerson find

Answer 2

-majority of infants become attached at 7 months to their mother
-3% of cases, father was primary attachment
-27% of cases father was joint attachment

Question 3

how did Field(1978) suggest fathers are important as attachment figures and why?

Answer 3

-fathers can be the more emotion focused primary attachment figure
-found that the key to attachment relationship is the level of responsiveness not the gender of the parent

Question 4

how did Grossmann et al (2002) suggest fathers are not important as attachment figures

Answer 4

-quality of a baby’s attachment with its mother (but not its father) was related to attachment in adolescence
-suggests attachment to fathers is less important than attachment to mothers

Question 5

how did McCallum and Golombok (2004) suggest fathers are not important as attachment figures

Answer 5

-found that children growing up in a single or same sex parent families don’t develop differently from those in two parent heterosexual families
-fathers don’t have a distinctive role

Question 6

what was Grossman et al (2002) study?

Answer 6

-longitudinal where babies attachments studied up until they were teens