Schaffer’s stages of attachment

Cards (2)

  • Schaffer’s stages of attachment
    Mothers of 60 working class Glasgow babies reported monthly on separation and stranger anxiety
    Asocial stage = same response to humans and objects
    Indiscriminate = 2-7 months, preference for familiar people
    Specific = stranger and separation anxiety, develop primary attachment(65% mother)
    Multiple = attachment behaviour directed towards more than one adult
  • Schaffer evaluation
    +real world application, when to start day care/nursery
    -poor evidence for asocial stage
    -not generalisable
    -social desirability bias