Attachment Types

Attachment Types

1. INSECURE

   • Insecure Avoidant
     • Infants are willing to explore and unresponsive to mother's return; they generally avoid social situations and intimacy with others
   • Insecure Resistant
     • Infants are less interested in exploring and show distress on mother's return; generally they both seek and reject intimacy and social interaction
   • Develops as a result of caregiver's lack of sensitive responding to an infants needs
   • Insecure Disorganised
     • Show a lack of consistent behaviour

2. SECURE

   • Willing to explore, easy to soothe and has high stranger anxiety
   • Infant is comfortable with intimacy and social interaction
   • Related to healthy subsequent cognitive and emotional development
   • Develops as a results of sensitive responding by caregiver