childood and adult relationships

• Internal working model- our mental representation of the world that affects our relationship to our primary attachment figure
• Relationships in childhood- friends,classmates and adults eg.teachers
• [Kerns] securely attached babies tend to form the best quality childhood friendships where's insecurely attached babies later have friendship difficulties
• [Myron-wilson &Smith] assessed atachment types and bullying involvement

  • found that securely attached babies were not involved with bullying.
  • Insecure resistant= the bully , insecure avoidant=victim
• Adult relationships- the relationships the child has later on in life- usually romantic
• [Hazan & Shaver] - association between attachment type and relationships

  • analysed 620 replies to a love quiz
  • Found that those reporting secure attachments were most likely to have good relationships
  • The avoidants had jealousy issues