Influence of early attachment on childhood and adult relationships Flashcards
Who studies relationship with partners
Hazen and Shaver
Hazen and Shaver
questionnaire asking questions about
1. childhood relationship with parents
2. views on romantic relationships
- avoidant = dont need to be in love to be happy, fear intimacy
- secure = positive experience with lasting relationships
- resistent = rollercoaster of love, experience jealousy
Who studied relationship with peers
Myron-Wilson and Smith
Myron-Wilson and Smith
Questionaire to assess attachment type + bullying behaviour
- avoidant = victm
- secure = not involved in bullying
- resistant = bully
Who studied relationship with child?
Bailey
Bailey
asked 99 mothers about relationship with their mothers and assessed their relationship with their child through the strange sitatuation
- most followed the continuity hypothesis
Internal Working Model
Mental representation about how attachment is formed from experience with PCG
- continuity hypothesis = attachment replicated throughout generations of a family as you give care based on care received
AO3 - self report
social desirability bias
AO3 - retrospective data
accuracy of memory
AO3 - volunteer
volunteer bias which is unrepresentative
AO3 - Zimmerman
Childhood attachment types has no predidctive validity for attachment shown in adolescence
AO3 - direction of causation
- nice chidlren = parents want to engage
- nice children = act positively in later relationships
