adulthood relationships

• hazan and shaver:

  -analysed 620 replies to love quiz in newspaper

  -quiz had three sections:current or most important relationships, love experiences and attachment type

  -findings:56% were securely attached, 25% insecure avoidant and 19% insecure resistant. attachment is reflected in romance
• myron-wilson and smith:

  -assessed attachment type and bullying involvement using questionnaires

  -196 children aged 7-11 from london

  -findings: secure very unlikely to be involved in bullying, insecure-avoidant were most likely to be victims and insecure-resistant to be bullies
• bailey et al:

  -considered attachment of 99 mothers and their babies to their own mothers

  -used strange situation to asses mother baby attachment

  -used adult attachment interview to assess mother-mother attachment

  -majority of women had same attachment to babies and mothers
• kerns:

  -investigated if there is an association between attachment and quality of childhood relationships

  -secure:best quality friendships

  -insecure:friendship difficulties

  -attachment type does influence quality of childhood relationships
• strengths and weaknesses of gaza’s and shaver:

  -may lack validity as people may respond dishonestly or based on their desires

  -lack validity as based on desires

  -large sample of men and women
• McCarthy Studied 40 adult women who had been assessed in their attachment as an infant.secure attachments had the best adult romantic relationships, insecure-resistant struggled with maintaining friendships and insecure-avoidant struggled with intimacy in romantic relationships.