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Bowlby's Theory. - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Hazan and Shaver (1987) researched the link between infant or childhood attachment types and adult relationships. They found that securely attached children, who had secure and close relationships with their parents, developed secure, stable and loving relationships with their adult partners. Insecure-avoidant children, who had cold and rejecting mothers, developed insecure adult relationships with high levels of jealousy and fear of rejection. This shows that childhood attachment styles correlate strongly with adult relationship styles, however the research is based on a self-report questionnaire with retrospective questions that try to explore childhood attachments through the participant’s own (biased) childhood memories. Check your romantic attachment style on our games and tests page.
- - - - Prior and Glaser (2006) concluded that a hierarchical model of attachment, which places emphasis on one central person ‘higher; than others, is more likely than multiple attachments
        
        The central person has special significance and contributes to healthy emotional development.
        
        This support’s Bowlby’s concept of ‘monotherapy’ and the idea that one special attachment plays a significant role in emotional development.
  - - - Kornienko argues that there ate other important influences on social development. ie: Genetic differences in anxiety and sociability affect behaviour in both babies and mother.
        
        This means Bowlby may have overstated the important of IWM in social behaviour and parenting at the expense of other factors.