Attachment theory

• Attachment theory

  -During infancy, their childhood interactions determine experiuences with primary caregiver.

  -Internal working model is a template or schema of future relationships.

  -Bowlby formed IWM that influences behaviour in adulthood which is the continuity hypothesis.
• Insecure resistant attachment type

  -are more susceptible to forming PSR's.

  -This is because those with an insecure resistant attachment type have an unfulfilled attachment.

  -The celebrity stands in as a substitute for the caregiver.