The Bayley Mental Maturity Index, obtained at age 2, was found to be correlated with certain patterns of attachment behavior over the first 2 years of life. These findings are discussed in terms of attachment theory and the etiology of sex differences in interpersonal relationships. (Author/SET)...
Summary: Attachment theory emphasizes the importance of a secure and trusting mother-infant bond on development and well-being.
These interventions use attachment theory as their guideline and follow the principles of the theory in their practice. In this chapter, I discuss attachment-based intervention from a researcher's perspective, with the objective of improving the quality of attachment research and......
Bowlby's theory of attachment contains the central idea of monotropy. This means that each infant forms this bond with one primary caregiver. Bowlby also stresses that this attachment must take place within the first two years of life, or there is a risk that the infant will not develop ...
John Bowlby was the first person to suggest attachment theory. He developed stages of the attachment relationship, which explain how attachment develops from birth through age two. Mary Ainsworth developed classifications of different types of attachment relationships, which are secure, insecure-avoidant...
The theory was formulated by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby.[2] Infants become attached to adults who are sensitive and responsive in social interactions with them, and who remain as consistent caregivers for some months during the period from about six months to two years of age. ...
“gene-selfish” interest of children in receiving as much of their parents’ physical as well as psychological resources as possible.6,13In terms of Trivers’14parent-offspring conflict paradigm, attachment theory focuses on the offspring’s side of the conflict, and on t...
Attachment is a relational process that starts developing since infancy and consolidates during the first years of life, which involves a set of behaviors, feelings, and thinking. Attachment theory goes back to the 1930s when it was discovered that children objectively fail to thrive if they were...
Bowlby’s evolutionary theory states that if a secure and strong attachment is not formed between the mother or primary care giver during the first weeks of birth and up to the first 2 years of their lives then this may impact on the child later in life. He noted that babies who spent ...
This includes, Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love, the best-selling book by Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller which popularised attachment theory in the first place....