Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kagan
- Rejects the idea that attachment is a response
to sensitivity
- Due instead to babies innate temperament
- Inhibited
- Uninhibited
- Type of attachment formed would depend on the child's temperament
- This is known as the Temperament Hypothesis
- "Temperament refers to stable behavioural and
emotional reactions that appear early and are
influenced in part by genetic constitution
- Developed in response to
Ainsworth's maternal Sensitivity
Hypothesis
- Evidence to support
- Belsky and Rovine (1987) found that
infants that have behavioural instability
at birth are less likely to form secure
attachments