Relationships in adulthood as a parent:
Internal working models also affect the child's ability to parent their own children. People tend to base their parenting style on their internal working model so attachment type tends to be passed on through generations of a family

Bailey - 99 mothers:

They assessed 99 mothers with one year old babies on the quality of their attachment to their own mothers using a standard interview procedure
They also assessed the attachment on the babies to their mothers by observations
Mothers who reported poor attachments to their own parents in the interviews were much more likely to have poor attachments with their own children

Evaluation:

Not all studies support internal working models. For example Zimmerman assessed infant attachment type and adolescent attachment to parents. There was very little relationship between quality of infant and adolescent attachment
Most studies of attachment are assessed by self report techniques like questionnaires/interviews. This creates validity problems. The validity of questionnaires/interviews is limited because respondents may not tell the truth
Association does not mean causality. There are alternative explanations for the association between early attachment and later relationships such as parenting style or child's temperament

	Created by Caitlyn Grayston over 9 years ago

AS level Psychology (Attachment) Note on Early Attachments and Later Relationships, created by Caitlyn Grayston on 12/05/2017.