Mary Ainsworth

This article was a research conducted by people to study the concept of resilience in people especially children who tried to adapt in spite of stress, tragedy or trauma. Resilience is the process by which people adapt well in tragedy, trauma, threats, health problems, stress and other things. Reading the article, there were some topics in psychology that could be linked to the concept of resilience. The types of attachment theory by Mary Ainsworth, our perception, and also the contexts of development. First of all, attachment is the process whereby children develop a bond between their caregivers or mothers. The types of attachment developed by Mary Ainsworth are secure, insecure-avoidant, disorganized, and insecure resistant. Those who were secured were able to connect well with others and feel confident even in unfamiliar circumstances. Also those who are insecure-avoidant and insecure resistant become less effective in dealing with such situations. Insecure-avoidant children avoid been dependent on others. Insecure-resistant people long for close relationship but sometimes it is hard for them to trust or depend on people. This shows that how we attach to our caregivers as children plays an important role in our resilience as we grow older. Resilience helps to deal with life challenges when faced with it.…

Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work on the development of attachment theory, is credited with the design of the strange situation procedure to analyze the psychological attachment between a child and its mother or caregiver which was used to advance the theory which many still look at today. A bit of history on Mary helps us understand her and the understanding she had on the subject. Ainsworth was born in Glendale, Ohio and raised in…

Bowlby’s Theory and Mary Ainsworth John Bowlby is a psychoanalyst who was interested in how mental health or behavioural problems came to be, he attributed this to a person’s early childhood experience, and how they were raised. John Bowlby invented 4 names for different parenting methods, and explained how he believed these parents acted and how this affected the said child in later adulthood. Mary Ainsworth was a student of Bowlby who agreed with his views and developed a very praised and used…

Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth Brief Personal History: I was born in Glendale, Ohio, USA on December 1,1913. Both of my parents are college graduates of Dickson College. They were very literature oriented and valued education. I am the eldest of three girls. I spent the first four years of my life in Ohio, and then moved to Toronto, Canada with my family at five. My parents trained us at a very young age to value our education. I like to party, dance, read, listen to music, and engaging in…

Mary Ainsworth Mary Ainsworth was born December 1st, 1913 in Glendale Ohio, United States and raised in Canada. At an early age she knew she wanted to grow up to be a psychologist, after she was inspired by reading the book “Character and the Conduct of Life by William McDougall. Mary belongs to the school of thought Microsociology. Microsociology is the study of interactions between individuals that have certain roles in society (i.e mother and child). She studied at University of Toronto in…

Mary Ainsworth was a developmental psychologist best known for developing the ‘Strange Situation’ experiment which elaborated on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory that observed the relationship between a child and its caregiver. Ainsworth’s interest with psychology began at the age of fifteen when she was introduced to William McDougall’s book “Character and Conductor of Life”, with this peek interest in psychology she went on to attend the University of Toronto where she was in the honors program…

This essay focuses on the comparison in infant sleeping arrangements among different culture. Moreover, further discussion of attachment theory in which mainly focusing on Ainsworth (1979) research findings and a hypothesis on relationships between maternal behavior and infant behavior with its effect on various sleeping arrangements. Attachment theory was initially developed by British psychologist John Bowlby, by using various ethological theories and later, Mary Ainsworth who was an…

Mary D. Saslter Ainsworth was an american psychologist, she was born in Ohio in 1913 and she died in Virginia University in 1999. Ainsworth was teacher, psychology researcher and she even joined in the Canadian army during the II World War. She had researched 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…

Per Mary Ainsworth, children act differently when factors such as strangers, parent leaving, etc. The child is aware of what is going on and can, depending on the style, be afraid of what will happen when the parent leaves or if they will come back. Some children are even fearful of the stranger and will act completely different. IN the following paragraphs, I will answer the following questions: 1. Type A – Insecure Avoidant 2. Type B - Secure 3. Type C – Insecure Ambivalent/ Resistant 4.…

when growing up to become an adults. For example if a child is crying, hungry or scared and the parent or Carer responds by meeting the child's needs or offer reassure and comfort, these help them build better relation with others, have self confidence and grow to be a happy person. However if a child does not form positive attachment with parents or caregiver it could have a negative impact on the child. Insecure attachment has been shown to negatively affect the child’s growth and…