Attachment in adults

Attachment is a reciprocal and enduring tie that is formed between two people, particularly between an infant and his or her caregiver. Both parties play a role in the quality of the relationship and the strength of the attachment that follows. Attachment is an important part of life and an adaptive characteristic because it ensures that all of the baby’s needs will be met, including those of physical and psychosocial nature. Many believe that attachment is actually a biological process in which…

Through attachment, a child has the ability to advance his or her cognitive skills created by relationship bonding between the child and caregiver. According to Sigelman & Rider, attachment “is a strong affectional tie that binds a person to an intimate companion (Sigelman & Rider, 2009). John Bowlby (1969), developer of attachment theory, believed that children who formed a continuing socio-emotional bond with an adult is more likely to survive in the world that he or she lives in. Attachment…

stability. Thus, attachment is inherently an interdependent quality. Once a sense of safely is established, individuals can explore their environment and learn. According to attachment theory, humans develop an attachment style by attaching to their caregiver, establishing an internal working model of how relationships should work based on that relationship, and using these models to determine beliefs about emotional availability in a given…

I. Young Adults (B.) In class we had the opportunity of learning about the Greek romantic lovers, which I found really interesting. There are different types of romantic lovers: eros, storge, agape, mania, ludus and praga. Eros are romantic, passionate, jealous and they get into big fights and the make up is very intents. Storge are companionate, loyal, not jealous, more stable, calmer and the partners are devoted to each other. Agapes are altruistic, the individual does not worry about what…

about the “theory of attachment” done by John Bowlby and she has reinvented it with her investigation skill called “strange situation” doing a great job of contribution to social psychology. In this paper I’m going to talk about this incredible, fighter and inteligent woman and her contribution to psychology. First of all, Mary Ainsworth has expended part of her life corroborating John Bowlby theories,who developed teh “theory of attachment”, through observation methods of attachment…

and the people that care for them is attachment. According to (John) Bowlby, children who form an attachment to an adult- that is, an enduring socioemotional relationship- are more likely to survive (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2013). Infants and caregivers tend to have an attachment by the infant’s age of 8-9 months. Attachment takes on many forms, and influences from the environment help to determine its quality. Mary Ainsworth is a researcher that studies attachment. She performed a study based on…

behaviour of an individual and the relationships they have – whether it’s platonic, romantic or familial – can be traced back to early childhood - as early as infancy even. Bowlby (1977) defines attachment as; “an enduring emotional bond which an individual forms to another person.” In other words, attachment is a strong tie an individual has with special figures in their lives, in whom they place great trust in. When they interact with these special figures, they feel joy and experience…

Attachment can be described as the emotional bond that connects one person to another person. According to John Bowlby (1969) explained that it is a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings”. Basically, attachment theory can be described on how a child interacts with the adults caring for him or her. If a child has a strong attachment, this means that the child can be confident that the caregiver or the adult will respond to the child's needs, an example would be if a child is…

A fundamental tenet of attachment theory is that the parent’s caregiving behaviour shapes a child’s internal working model of self and others. Children, who experience sensitive and consistent caregiving, develop secure working models of relationships, whereas children who experience rejecting or inconsistent relationships tend to develop insecure working models. According to Cassidy (1994) an important attribute of the secure model is the view that emotion expression is acceptable, that such…

when an individual becomes impaired through drug-taking behavior (Busse & Riley, 2008, p. 21). Drug and alcohol abuse lead to many serious consequences. The emotional, physical, social, psychological, and intellectual health of many children and adults are impaired and damaged by drug abuse (“Drug and Alcohol Abuse,” 2014). Drug and alcohol abuse are not to be taken lightly. Those that are caught in the hole of drug and alcohol need help from friends and family in order to overcome it (“Drug…