early attachment

• Attachment type is associated with quality of relationships in childhood

  • the researcher- Kern
  • early attachment is linked to bullying
  • insecure avoidant more likely to be victims of bullying
  • insecure resistant more likely to be bullies
  • secure children more likely to not be involved
• Hazen and Shaver - the love quiz

  Aim: correlation between attachment type and future approach to romantic relationships
• Hazan and Shaver love quiz findings

  1. secure
  2. insecure avoidant
  3. insecure resistant

  
• Influence of early attachment on adult relationships - parenting

  • the internal working model may affect the child’s ability to parent their own children
  • eg. Harlow found his monkeys with poor attachments as babies then had difficulties with parenting
• Evaluation of early attachment influence

  🙂 support from Main

  ☹️ research is often retrospective

  ☹️ deterministic

  ☹️ use of self-report methods