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Mind Map by Jess Hughes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jess Hughes
over 10 years ago
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Influence of early attachment
- Bowlby's concept of internal working model is
similar to schemas
- Infant learns what relationships are like from
experience and how partners behave towards
each other
- It is an operable model of self and attachment
partner based on joint attachment history
(Bretherton and Mulholland 1999)
- It is operable because it is used to predict
future behaviour
- It is operable because it is used to predict
future behaviour
- It is an operable model of self and attachment
partner based on joint attachment history
(Bretherton and Mulholland 1999)
- Hazan and Shaver
- Love quiz in an American newspaper asking about current
and previous attachment to identify attachment types.
Asked questions about attitudes towards love, assessing the
internal working model.
- Procedure
- Procedure
- 620 responses - 205
male and 415 female
- Analysing the self - report attachment history attachment
styles = similar o that found in infancy
- 56% secure
- 25% aviodant
- 19% resistant
- Findings
- 56% secure
- Positive correlation between attachment type and love experiences.
- Secure = happy love
experiences, trusting and
accepting. Enduring 10 yr+
relationships
- Resistant and avoidant = 5 / 6 years
- Secure = happy love
experiences, trusting and
accepting. Enduring 10 yr+
relationships
- Relationship between internal working model
and attachment type.
- Secure = positive internal
working model
- Secure = positive internal
working model
- Love quiz in an American newspaper asking about current
and previous attachment to identify attachment types.
Asked questions about attitudes towards love, assessing the
internal working model.
- Behaviours influenced by IWM:
- Childhood friendships - Minnesota child - parent study found continuity between
early attachment ad later emotional / social behaviour. Securely attached infants
had a higher social competence, empathy and were popular later on in life.
- Poor parenting - Harlow's research with monkeys demonstrated links between
poor attachment and later difficulties with parenting. Quinton showed the
same with humans.
- Romantic relationships - Hazan and schaver study
- Metal health - lack of attachment during critical period results in lack of
IWM. Children with attachment disorder have no preferred attachment
figure, inability to relate to others, severe neglect / frequent change of
caregivers.
- Childhood friendships - Minnesota child - parent study found continuity between
early attachment ad later emotional / social behaviour. Securely attached infants
had a higher social competence, empathy and were popular later on in life.
- Evaluation
- Correlational rather than experimental and
cannot be proven as cause and effect - other
influencing factors
- Retrospective flawed as memories may not be exact
- But other studies support Hazan and Shaver i.e. simpson proving
childhood attachment predict later life
- But other studies support Hazan and Shaver i.e. simpson proving
childhood attachment predict later life
- Overly determinist - states that
those w/o secure attachment are
doomed in later life. NOT THE CASE
- Correlational rather than experimental and
cannot be proven as cause and effect - other
influencing factors
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