childood and adult relationships

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    • 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
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