attachment studies

• STAGES OF ATTACHMENT

  Schaffer and emerson - studied working class mothers and babies, observing them each month for the first year of the baby's life, and again at 18 months

  - attachment was measured by looking at separation protest, eg when the infant was left alone AND stranger anxiety when the researcher approached the child, levels of distress were recorded

  - found most infants started to show separation protest from their attachment figure between 6-9 months

  - most infants went on to develop multiple attachments, at 18 months 87% of infants had at least two attachments
• CAREGIVER INFANT INTERACTIONS

  Isabella (1989) - observed 30 mother and infant relationships, and found that high levels on interactional synchrony were associated with more secure mother-infant attachments, suggesting interactional synchrony is an important caregiver-infant interaction

  
  

  Le vine et al (1994) - found that Kenyan mothers had little physical contact or interactions with infants however a high proportion of infants formed secure attachments
• STRANGE SITUATION


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• CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN ATTACHMENT 


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• BOWLBY'S MONOTROPIC THEORY 


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• LEARNING THEORY OF ATTACHMENT 


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• BOWLBY'S MATERNAL DEPRIVATION HYPOTHESIS

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• EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION

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• INFLUENCE OF EARLY ATTACHMENT ON CHILDHOOD AND ADULTHOOD RELATIONSHIPS 


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• ROLE OF THE FATHER

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