Family Studies 1015A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: Family Studies 1015A/B
• Professor: Bridget Demachi

Document Summary

Attachment style : researcher bowldy realized that infants interaction with caregivers shape their orientaions towards relationship with others. Our global beliefs about the nature and worth of intimate relationships are shaped by our experiences within them, especially in our early years of life from birth to age 6yrs old. But will continue to shape by experience as adults . Classic work by developmental psychologists identified three broad types of attachment styles: (only about 60% of us are secure and trusting in our romantic relationships. ) Secure: trusting and relaxed bravely to explore the unfamiliar setting . Anxious-ambivalent: nervous and clingy (cried and clung to moms) Bartholomew proposed four general types of attachment styles: Secure: comfortable with intimacy, sociable, positive low avoidance of intimacy, low anxiety about abandonment . Preoccupied want to be intimated but worry others not value her as the same, uncomfortable with close relationship, needy and jealous (low avoidance, high anxiety)