Grossman (2002)

• Grossman (2002) carried out a longitudinal study babies attachments were studied until they were into their teens
• The researchers looked at both parents‘ behaviour/ attachment with their child and the link it had to the quality of their child’s later attachments with people
• The quality of infant attachment with mothers was related to children’s attachment in adolescence, but this was not the case for father- child attachment
• This suggests that the father attachment was less important than the mothers attachment
• The quality of the fathers play with infants have a different role in attachment one that is more to do with plau and stimulation, this was related to the quality of adolescents attachments
• Therefore, fathers have a different role from mothers in the contribution of their child’s attachment experiences. Fathers play sensitivity was a better predictor of the child’s long- term attachment whereas mothers was more nurturing