The effects of early attachment on later relationships

• How does early attachment effect later relationships

  • A child's first relationship w/their caregiver acts as a template for future relationships
  • Children will assume that's how a relationship is meant to be and seek this relationship as an adult
• Hazan and Shaver's Love Quiz

  Aim: see if partners in romantic relationships experienced attachment process like infants w/caregivers

  • Ran love quiz in a newspaper
  • 2 part quiz looked at pps attachment style as infants & their beliefs on love
  • pps-205 men. 415 women. Aged 14-82. 42% married. 31% dating.
  • PPs sorted in Ainsworths attachment types

  Found: 56% of pps were securely attached adults - more likely to have long-lasting romantic relationships. 19% were insecure resistant. 25% insecure avoidant

  • So child's infant attachment style impacts attachment to a partner as adults