Impact of Childhood Attachment and Separation Experiences upon Adult Re

Impact of Childhood Attachment and Separation Experiences upon Adult RelationshipsAbstractThis soft research was conducted to ascertain if the attachment style a person has as an adult is created or exercised by his/her interactions with early childhood experiences. The research was carried turn out by means of a thematic analysis of an interview of a married middle-aged couple. The interviews bought the themes of Work, Childhood and Relationships to the foreground and these were analysed to establish if there is a connection in our childhood attachments and those we make as adults. It can be seen that there are similarities to the attachment types of infants compared to those that emerge as adults although individual differences and bread and butter experiences also have a part to play in our competency to form secure adult attachment relationships.IntroductionThe general linguistic rule behind attachment theory is to describe and explain peoples stable patterns of relationsh ips from birth to death. Because attachment is thought to have an evolutionary basis, these social relationships are formed in order to encourage social and cognitive development, and enable the child to grow up to become socially reassured in adulthood.The assumption in attachment research on children is that tippy responses by the parents to the childs needs result in a child who demonstrates secure attachment while lack of sensitive responding results in insecure attachment. John Bowlby who attempted to understand the distress infants experience during withdrawal from their parents originally essential this research. Bowlby saw attachment as being crucial to a childs personality developing and to the development of relationships with others after in life. This theory has its foundation in vertical relationships i.e. Primary bring off Giver/Child, while on the other hand in The raising Assumption, Judith Rich Harris (1999) suggests that it is the peer groups that have the strongest control in shaping how that child will grow up and that parents have very little influence over the matter, this is cognize as a horizontal relationship. In developing and classifying infant behaviour Mary Ainsworth who worked with Bowlby for a number of years developed a method of gauging attachment in infants, in an experiment known as the Strange Situation. This involved observations in la... ...ng to see Jo grin and raise her eyebrows when Tony says at the beginning of the first interview he is evenhandedly easy going. It led me as a researcher to recover that perhaps this was not actually the case, in Jos opinion. Actions like this accept the interview a complete different angle, and can add rattling(a) information to the final interpretation of what is said.ReferencesWood C, Littleton K & Oates J, Lifespan development, Chapter 1 in Challenging Psychological Issues by Cooper T and Roth I (eds) The Open University, Milton Keynes, 2002.Ainsworth, M.S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E. and Wall, S. (1978) Patters of Attachment A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation, Hillsdale, NJ, ErlbaumGoodley D, Lawthom R, Tindall C, Tobbell J, Wetherell M, (eds) (2003) Methods leaflet 4 Understanding People Qualitative Methods. Open University Press.Banister P, (ed) (2003) Methods pamphlet 5 Qualitative Project. Open University Press.Harris, J.R. (1999) The Nurture Assumption, London Bloomsbury.Research Methods in Psychology DSE 212 Video 1 Part 4 Interviewing, Milton Keynes, The Open University. adjunctAppendix A -Annotated copy of transcript.