weakness

• weakness of attachment theory?


  McCutcheon tested the hypothesis
• McCutcheon procedure?


  299 students

  used Celebrity Attitude Scale

  Measured adult attachment using a relationship questionnaire
• How did McCutcheon measure childhood attachment types?


  Through the use of a parental bonding scale based on their recall of the relationship with their parents before age 16
• McCutcheon results?


  There was no relationship between insecure attachment and the tendency to form parasocial relationships with celebrities
• what do McCutcheons findings contradict?


  Contradict the claim made by attachment theory explanations
• HOWEVER this research....?

  questionnaire- Self-report - SDB- also forgetting - responses lack validity

  correlation only no causation