earlt attachment and later relationships

• early attachments can affect later relationships
• bowlbys iwm how childhood affects adult relationships
• a secure attachment in childhood will lead to a secure relationship in adulthood
• hazan and shaver - love quiz - found correlation between childhood attachment and later attachment in relationships
• adult attachment interview explored the role of earlt attachments - based on the idea that what type of attachment was is irrelevant but that what they remembered it being had the biggest effect
• cycle of privation - children who experience privation go on to have difficulties caring for their own children
• quinton - compared 50 women who had been raised in institutions compared with control - those who raised in institutions had more difficulty parenting later in life