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Adult Attachment Nad Relational Communication
2,042 wordsAdult Attachment and Strategic Relational Communication: Love Schemas and Affinity Seeking According to attachment theory, the emotional bonds that infants form with their caregivers serve as the blueprints for the way people view themselves and others and they affect the way people act in their adult relationships, (Bowlby, 1982). John Bowlby was one of the first pioneers to advance on the attachment theory perspective. He was greeted with resistance and skepticism early on. Now, attachment the...
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Effects Of Negative Life Experiences On Individuals
1,694 wordsThis is a review of literature that covers five studies on attachment. In each study it was concluded that negative life experiences could affect an individual and possibly change the attachment style they have with their parents from infancy. The four different attachment styles are Secure, Insecure-Avoidant, Insecure-Resistant, and Insecure-Disorganized. From the studies presented it was shown that each attachment style a child had with their parents could change due to negative life experienc...
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Effects Of Negative Life Experiences On Individuals
1,680 words... observed the researchers defined each child as secure, secure-avoid ant, or secure-resistant. Twenty years later Waters et al would did a follow up study on these infants to examine the extent of stability and change in attachment patterns from infancy to early adulthood and to stimulate research into mechanisms underlying these developmental trajectories (Waters et el, 2000). Another interest of Waters et al was if negative life events affected the individuals, this idea was supported by Bo...
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Chesney Lind Juvenile Delinquency
5,300 wordsCORRELATES OF DELINQUENCY Matelina M. Aulava Chaminade University 3140 Waialae Ave. Honolulu HI 96816 Abstract Studies have been conducted on what factors lead to delinquency. Proposed factors of delinquency have been studied in three major fields, biological, psychological, and sociological. This study is guided by psychological and sociological theories. The question of whether or not relationships among attachment, aggression, and delinquency exist was investigated through survey research. At...
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Developmental Psychology Attachment Figure
2,331 wordsWhy have psychologists stressed the importance of attachment behaviours in development? Many theorists agree that social contact early in a childs life is important for healthy personality development. This is the most important relationship of the child development period as it is from this that the child drives its confidence in the world. A break from this relationship is experienced as highly distressing and constitutes a considerable trauma (Schaffer 1964). Through frequent social and emoti...
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