Influence on later relationships

• What did Kern conclude about relationships based on attachment?

  • Securely attached babies go on to form best quality childhood friendships
  • Insecurely attached babies experience friendship problems
• What was the process and results of Myron-Wilson and Smith's questionnaire?

  • Questionnaire with 196 children, test whether childhood attachment could predict friendship behaviour
  • Securely attached : unlikely to be bullied
  • Insecure resistant: more likely to be bullies
  • Insecure avoidant: more likely to be bullied
• What was Hazan and Shaver's love quiz hypothesis?

  Hazan and Shaver's love quiz hypothesis suggests that individuals who have secure attachments in childhood are more likely to have secure and satisfying romantic relationships in adulthood.
• What was the love quiz results?

  SECURE:

  % = 56

  Childhood experiences = close relationship w parents

  Adult experiences w partner = stable, loving relationship

  Divorce rate = 6%

  INSECURE RESISTANT:

  %= 19

  Childhood experiences = unfair, conflicting memories

  Adult experiences w partner = obsessive, jealous, emotional highs&low

  Divorce rate = 10%

  INSECURE AVOIDANT:

  % = 25

  Childhood experiences = mother cold, rejecting

  Adult experiences w partner = fear of intimacy

  Divorce rates = 12%
• Give two strengths and two limitations of the love quiz

  STRENGTHS:

  • Both men and women participated, more generalisable
  • Supports Bowlby's theory

  LIMITATIONS:

  • Problems with validity, participants may not be honest
  • Exclusively American population, ethnocentric