Influence of early attachment on later relationships AO3
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- Influence of early attachment on later relationships AO3
- Evidence on continuity of attachment mixed
- Internal working model: attachment type in infancy affects quality of relationships in later life
- Zimmerman (2000) assessed infant attachment type and adolecsent attachments to parents: little relationship between quality of infant and adolescent attachment
- Limitation: shows internal working model not so important in quality of adolescent relationships
- Zimmerman (2000) assessed infant attachment type and adolecsent attachments to parents: little relationship between quality of infant and adolescent attachment
- Internal working model: attachment type in infancy affects quality of relationships in later life
- Issues with validity
- Studies into the influence of attachment on later relationships often use questionnaires or interviews
- This limits the validity as it is dependant on participants having minimal response bias + recollection
- Limitation as it questions whether attachment types actually have influence on later relationships
- This limits the validity as it is dependant on participants having minimal response bias + recollection
- Studies into the influence of attachment on later relationships often use questionnaires or interviews
- Correlation does not mean causation
- Alternate explanations for continuity that often exists between infant and later relationships
- Child's temperament may influence both infant attachment and quality of later relationships
- This counters Bowlby's view of the internal working model affecting later relationships
- Child's temperament may influence both infant attachment and quality of later relationships
- Alternate explanations for continuity that often exists between infant and later relationships
- Influence of infant attachment on future relationships exaggerated
- Clarke & Clarke (1998) describe influence of infant attachment on late relationships as 'probablistic
- People not doomed to always have bad relationships due to attachment problems - they are at a greater risk
- By overemphasising this risk, we become too reductionist about the effect of later relationships from the internal working model
- People not doomed to always have bad relationships due to attachment problems - they are at a greater risk
- Clarke & Clarke (1998) describe influence of infant attachment on late relationships as 'probablistic
- Theoretical problem with research related to internal working models
- Internal working models unconscious - not aware of influence on us
- We wouldn't expect to get direct evidence about them through self-report methods which require conscious awareness
- When participants self-report on their relationships they rely on conscious understanding of those relationships
- At best, self-report gives us indirect evidence about internal working models
- Potential limitation of most research involving concept of internal working model
- At best, self-report gives us indirect evidence about internal working models
- When participants self-report on their relationships they rely on conscious understanding of those relationships
- We wouldn't expect to get direct evidence about them through self-report methods which require conscious awareness
- Internal working models unconscious - not aware of influence on us
- Evidence on continuity of attachment mixed
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