EFFECT ON LATER RELATIONSHIPS

• WHO CREATED AAI?

  Main
• SECURE ADULTS IN AAI?

  • autonomous
  • freely provide
  • coherent, clear, vivid information
• INSECURE DISMISSING ADULTS IN AAI?

  • brief
  • contradictions
• INSECURE PREOCCUPIED IN AAI?

  • excessively long
  • irrelevant
  • anger/ passivity/ fear
• INSECURE UNRESOLVED IN AAI?

  • confused
  • dead person alive
  • killed by childhood thought
• RESEARCHERS ON EFFECT?

  • Smith
  • Hazaan + Shaver
  • Bailey
• SMITH?

  • 196 children
  • 7 - 11
  • London
  • questionnaire
  • secure : rarely involved
  • IA: victim
  • IR: bully
• HAZAAN + SHAVER?

  • 620 replies
  • 14 - 82
  • secure: happy, trusting
  • IA: fear intimacy, not need love
  • IR: obsessive. desire reciprocation
• BAILEY?

  • 99 mothers + infants
  • AAI (6 months) -> observed (12 months) -> strange situation
  • autonomous adults: secure children
  • insecure dismissing adults: IA children
  • insecure preoccupied adults: IR children
  • positive correlation between mother relationship with parents and child's behaviour
• EVALUATION?

  • determinism
  • internal validity
  • counter evidence (Koluchova)
• DETERMINISM?

  • early experiences determine later behaviour
  • assumes cause and effect
  • Bowlby view contradicts legal system (idea of free will)
  • raises moral debate (abuse + accountability)
• INTERNAL VALIDITY?

  • AAI relies on retrospective data
  • misremember/ lack of insight
  • self-reports
  • subjective/ open to social desirability
• KOLUCHOVA?

  • twins functioned fine in later relationships
  • children can recover
  • contradicts irreversible IWM