PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Attachment In Adults
15 Apr 2014
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3 attachment styles: secure, insecure avoidant- mom rejecting and unavailable- 15-20%, infant starts to reject mom. Stranger situation- age 2 left alone in a room, not upset when mom leaves the room > not interestd. Screw you, i didn"t want to play with you anyway, i don"t care! : insecure- ambivalent (aka nsecure- anxious) 15-20%, very upset about wether mom will comfort you or reject you. Stranger situation- when mom leaves baby freaks out, when mom comes back still freaks out, even though she"s back. Working models of relationship and self- persist into aulthood- set by age 5. Bartholomew"s (1990) 2 factor model of adult attachment styles: fear of abandonment, avoidance of intimacy- emotional if both low, secure 60-65% people, well equipped if high fear of abandonment and low fear of intimacy= preoccupied. Anoxious- ambivalent style- obsessed with partner, do they love you, if they sense abandonment >freak out. If high avoidance of intimacy and low fear of abandonment= dismissing.
