strength (love quiz)

• Hazan & Shaver - support for internal working model (procedure)


  -found adult romantic styles were related to childhood attachment styles using a love quiz

  -questionnaire consisted of 3 parts

  -asked Ps questions about current relationship experiences. attachment history & attitudes towards love

  -to identify current & childhood attachment types

  -researchers analysed responses from cross section of population who volunteered
• Hazan & Shaver - support for internal working model (findings)

  -secure : happy, trusting, longer lasting relationships

  -resistant in childhood : obsession, emotional highs & lows, extreme attraction & jealousy in adult relationships

  > worried partners would abandon them

  -avoidant : feared intimacy in romantic relationships & believed they didn't need love to be happy

  -findings support idea that early attachment experiences continue into adulthood as internal working model proposes
• support for monotropy idea - TRONICK ET AL

  -cross-cultural research in Zaire

  -the Efe Tribe live in extended family groups

  -infants looked after & breastfed by different women

  -slept with their mothers at night

  -by age of 6 months infants show preference for their mothers > single primary attachment

  -supports idea that we have one attachment greater than any other