Inflience Of Attatchmetn On Adult Relationships

Question 1

What is the influence of attachment in adult relationships based off

Answer 1

Internal working models of attachment (bowlby)

Question 2

Kerns

Answer 2

Securely attached infants have better quality relationships with peers in later childhood than insecurely attached infants

Question 3

Who studies whether attachment had an affect on childhood relationships (bullying)

Answer 3

Wilson and Smith

Question 4

Wilson and Smith procedure

Answer 4

Used questionnaires to assess behavior and attachment type of 7-11 year olds from london

Question 5

Wilson and Smith findings

Answer 5

Secure-least likely to bully or be bullies
Avoidant-most likely to be victims
Resistant-most likely to bully

Question 6

Who studies how attachment affects parenting

Answer 6

Bailey

Question 7

Bailey’s procedure

Answer 7

Assessed 99 mothers and infants using the strange situation

Question 8

Bailey’s findings

Answer 8

The majority of mothers had the same attachment type as their baby
Suggesting that parenting styles are modelled after your mother, leading you to pass them into your infant

Question 9

Who studied attachments affect on romantic relationships

Answer 9

Hazan and Shaver

Question 10

Hazan and Shavers procedure

Answer 10

Analysed 620 replies to the love quiz which was printed in a newspaper

It asked about
Current relationships
General love experiences
Attachment type

Question 11

Results of Hazan and Shaver

Answer 11

56% secure = good and long lasting relationships
25% avoidant = history of jealousy/fear of intimacy
19% Resistant = held fears that their loved ones would abandon them

Question 12

Supporting research

Answer 12

McCarthy
40 adult women assessed when they were infants to establish attachment type
Secure=best adult friendships and relationships
Insecure avoidant=struggles with intimacy

Question 13

Methodological issues

Answer 13

Validity of recall
Most of these studies are done years after infancy and require self report techniques
Also requires being honest about relationships

Question 14

Correlation doesn’t mean causality

Answer 14

-There could be a third environmental factor like parenting style
-Or the child’s temperament could effect how their parents treat them

-Counters internal working models

Question 15

Only causational

Answer 15

-Only makes inferences about behavior
-Temoerment is a confounding variables that effects the ways parents respond to their child, it doesn’t make the child securely or insecurely attached