Hazan and Shaver

• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - methods

  Conducted love quiz in local news paper
• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - Part one of love quiz

  Assessed type of attachment of each person with their parents
• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - Part two of love quiz

  Asked questions about current beliefs of their current romantic relationships
• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - Findings

  620 responses were analysed

  Correlation in type of attachment and later views on romantic relationships

  Insecure-avoidants fear intimacy

  Insecure-resistant worry they weren't loved
• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - Conclusions

  • Support Bowlby's internal working model that early attachments do influence adult relationships
• Hazan and Shaver -The influence of early attachment - Evaluation

  • Relied on people thinking back to childhood (lack accuracy)
  • Used volunteer sample (certain type of person responded)
  • People may answer untruthfully
  • Did repeat study in 2003 and found similar results