Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evaluation of Bowlby
- Bowlby seems to concentrate on the role of
the mother and neglected the father believing
the latter to be of little significance. Later
research has shown that the father can play a
useful role and lamb (1983) suggests that
often children prefer the rough and tumble
play they get with the father.
- Bowlby seemed to overlook the
relationships the child develops with its
brothers and sisters. Schaffer (1996)
describes these as horizontal relationships
as opposed to the vertical relationships with
parents, teachers and other adults.
- Zimmerman et al (2000)
- Assessed attachment style of children ages
12 to 18 months and then in a longitudinal
study checked again at the age of 16 years
- They found that early attachment style was not a good
predictor of later relationships and also discovered that life
events such as parental divorce had a much greater impact.
- A poor early start can be overcome
by positive experiences at school
and good adult relationships
(Rutter & Quinton 1988).
- Hazan and Shaver (1987):
The Love Quiz’
- Procedure
- The researchers asked people to volunteer to take
part in the study. They were given 2 questionnaires,
one to determine their early relationships with parents,
the second their later, adult romantic attachments.
- Findings
- They found three basic types of
childhood attachment and related
these to later adult attachments:
- Secure
- Close warm
relationship with parents
and between parents
- Secure, stable and
loving relationship
with partner
- 6%
divorced
- Avoidant
- Mother was cold
and rejecting
- Fear of intimacy, emotional
highs and lows, jealousy
- 12%
divorced
- Anxious
ambivalent
- Father was
perceived as unfair
- Obsessive, jealous and
emotional highs and lows
- 10%
divorced
- Conclusion
- Early attachments
do affect later,
romantic
attachments.
- Evaluation of
the Love Quiz
- Poor piece of research because;
- Self selecting sample:
- The participants volunteered
after reading an advert in the
Rocky Mountain News. This
is a poor way of selecting
participants since you are not
getting a cross section of the
public
- Questionnaire
- People tend not to answer
truthfully, particularly on
issues of relationships,
instead wanting to make
themselves look good
- Retrospective
- It seems
unlikely that
people’s
memory of their
childhood
experiences will
be accurate
- Cause and effect
- The researchers have shown a
relationship between early attachments
and later ones and are assuming that
the childhood experience has caused
the adult experience