Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire short version Instructions: When completing this questionnaire, please focus on one significant adult relationship. It does not necessarily need to be a romantic relationship, but must be the individual with whom you feel the most connection. Who is your primary “go to” person if you’re sick, in trouble, want […]
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Attachment Part 4: Infants and Beyond
The Long Term Influence of Attachment Patterns As children grow older the quality of their attachment to their parent influences how much they trust their parents. Parents are an important source of knowledge, advice and information for children and adolescents. Teens and older children are far more likely to rely on and trust parents when […]
The Development of Attachment in Infants, part 2
Attachment in Infants Part 2: Studying Attachment: How the Attachment Styles were Identified In 1978 Mary Ainsworth, who had been a student of Bowlby’s, designed a playroom in a laboratory setting that can be used to evaluate the quality of children’s attachments to their mother or other main caregiver. The procedure is known as “the […]