Impact of Childhood Attachment and Separation Experiences upon Adult Re

Impact of Childhood Attachment and Separation Experiences upon Adult RelationshipsAbstractThis qualitative research was conducted to ascertain if the attachment style a person has as an adult is created or act upond by his/her interactions with early minorhood experiences. The research was carried come on 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 sprightliness experiences also have a part to play in our dexterity to form secure adult attachment relationships.IntroductionThe general dominion behind attachment theory is to describe and explain peoples stable patterns of relationships fro m birth to death. Because attachment is thought to have an evolutionary basis, these favorable relationships are formed in order to encourage social and cognitive development, and enable the child to grow up to become socially surefooted in adulthood.The assumption in attachment research on children is that bare-assed 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 authentic this research. Bowlby saw attachment as being life-or-death to a childs personality underdeveloped and to the development of relationships with others ulterior in life. This theory has its foundation in vertical relationships i.e. Primary billing Giver/Child, while on the other hand in The provoke 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 cognise 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 smile and raise her eyebrows when Tony says at the beginning of the first interview he is clean easy going. It led me as a researcher to sound off that perhaps this was not actually the case, in Jos opinion. Actions like this accommodate the interview a complete different angle, and can add nasty 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., B lehar, 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 folder 4 Understanding People Qualitative Methods. Open University Press.Banister P, (ed) (2003) Methods tract 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. addendumAppendix A -Annotated copy of transcript.