influence early attachment on later relationships

• Internal Working Model (IWM)

  A mental representation of the first attachment relationship that acts as a template for future relationships
• Quality of a child's first attachment


  Powerfully affects the nature of their future relationships
• Internal Working Model (IWM)

  • Predicts continuity between the security of an infant's attachment and that of its later relationships
  • Attachment type in infancy is usually the same as that characterising the person's later relationships
• Evidence for the continuity of attachment type is mixed
• Bowlby's theory of attachment is influential in our understanding of attachment
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