Role Of Early Attachment

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psychologists developed a way to scientifically assess

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the relationship between early childhood attachment and later adult attachments

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psychologists came up with the

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adult attachment interview

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it’s based on the idea that it doesn’t really matter what

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the childhood attachment was - it’s how its remembered

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this supports the

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internal working model

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Main et al (1985)

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the adult attachment interview

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Main et al date

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1985

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this semi-structured interview involves a

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series of questions about childhood attachment relationships and how these were seen to influence later relationships

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the interviewee was asked to give

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five adjectives explaining their relationship with each of their parents

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they’re then asked to explain why they chose

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each adjectives

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other questions were asked about times

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they got upset

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another question was if they ever felt

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rejected

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another question was how they believe their early experiences influenced

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their adult attachments

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the results were classified by

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trained coders into a category

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what were the categories?

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secure
dismissing
preoccupied
unresolved/disorganised

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Main et al (1985) went on to show that the categories of adult relationships could be

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predicted from peoples recall of their childhood attachments