correlates and effects of attachment

• ainsworth work on attchment showed that how a child attaches to their caregiver affects how they regulate their emotions
• therefore Secure infants: Express their emotions for comfort andprotection freely and directly
• Avoidant infants: Restrict their emotional expression ofattachment needs
• Resistant infants: Exaggerate their emotional expressionof attachment needs
• Goldberg et al. 1994 discorved that caregiver drive the exprssions of an infants emotions depending the attachment realtionship between mother and child
• so secure infants would know that All emotions are acceptable and emotions are a topic for conversation
• avodiant infants would understand that Emotions, especially negative ones, are ineffective in recruiting help, and are not a topic for discussion
• and resistant infant would understand that The effects of expressing emotions are unpredictable and not a topic for discussion, but intense negative emotions are most likely to provoke attention
• main in 1983 discovred that Young children with secure histories are more compliant, co-operative and responsive with their mothers
• Bielefeld et al. (1991) asked 6 year olds and their mothers tomake a building with blocks he found out that children with secure historeis are more assertiveness, more confidence BUT were also more likely to engage indirect conflict
• not listening was a common behaviour in secure babies
• the Minnesota Longitudinal Study foudn that pre school children with more scrue attachment histories wereranked as highest in competence by teachers, less isolated,and more popular
• Middle Childhood: Children with secure attachment historieswere twice as likely to form friendships, more likely to engage inorganised tasks
• Adolescence: Teens with secure histories had higher globalcompetence, and were higher in self-confidence and leadership