Schaffer and ❌ (1964) found majority of babies became attached to their ❌ first. In ❌ the Father was the first attachment figure, in ❌ the father was the first joint attachment figure.
In 75% of infants studied, an attachment was formed with the father by 18 months. How was attachment indicated?
Infants unresponsive to any person, except their father
Infants displaying interactional synchrony with everyone but the father
Infants protested when father walked away
Infants cries when picked up by a stranger
Grossmann carried out a longitudinal study in 2002, looking at the relationship between parents behaviour and the quality of children's attachments into their teens.
Grossman's study found that:
Quality of attachment with the father was less important than that with the mother in teenagers attachment types
Quality of attachment with the mother was less important than that with the father in teenagers attachment types
Quality of attachment did not have an effect of teenagers attachment type
