Secure Attachment In Children

In a child’s life, they either have secure or insecure attachment. Secure and Insecure attachment on a child starts with the parent and how much bonding it got as an infant, and continues as they get older. I also believe that it can develop from genetics as well as your environment. The characteristics of a securely attached child are, becoming upset as their parents leave, but becoming happy when their parents return. Besides “seeking comfort from their parents as their frightened, they also prefer their parents over strangers, and greets return of parents with positive emotions.” (Cherry, 2016). Studies also showed children who are securely attached to their parents, tend to be more “empathetic” during their later stages of childhood, and …show more content…
Attachment can affect individual as adults in many different ways. Adults who have the secure attachment often show signs of trust and having long-term relationships with others, where as with insecure attachment, adults tend to have trouble trusting people which leads to not having a stable relationship. One of Erikson’s eight stages of his psychosocial theory is trust vs. mistrust. A child develops trust in its caregiver if it’s taken care of, where as if it feels neglected then the child will develop mistrust in people. These characteristics relate to Bowlby and Ainsworth because they both worked in researching different attachment theories. Mary Ainsworth had three main attachment styles. “Type B was secure attachment, Type A was insecure avoidant, and Type C was Insecure ambivalent/resistant.” Where as John Bowlby, believed that attachment “was an all or nothing process.” However, over time research has proven “that there are individual differences in attachment quality.” (John Bowlby,