Effect on later relationships

• how does the internal working model reflect later relationships


  • child's template for a relationship.
  • if the Childs first attachment is with a loving parent
  • more likely to have a loving relationship later on
• what friendships do securely attached children form


  the best quality friendship
• what friendships do insecurely attached children form


  they have friendship difficulties
• what attachment type was most likely to be bullies

  insecure resistant
• Hazan and Shaver


  love quiz
• what was the love quiz procedure

  • had 620 responses in a newspaper
  • the first section was people answering questions on their most important relationships
  • the second was the number of partners they had
  • the last was about their feelings
• what did the love quiz find

  • 56% of people were securely attached
  • reported to have the most long lasting healthy relationships.
  • insecure avoidant had signs of jealousy and fear of intimacy
• supporting research


  • Bailey found that mothers that reported to have a poor relationship with their own mothers
  • tended to have children who had bad relationships.
  • this shows that if you have a poor relationship when you're growing up
  • you can pass it onto your child and they develop that poor relationship
• validity issues


  • most methods to asses attachment and later relationships is a self report study.
  • people may choose to lie during these
  • may not tell the entire truth eg Love Quiz
• other variables involved


  • association between poor attachment and bad relationships does not mean that one causes the other.
  • it ignores that there may be a third factor that is involved in this
  • for example peoples biology.
  • showing that it does not always mean causation, lacking validity