Exploring the role of secondary attachment relationships in the development of attachment security.
Description:
The process by which earned-secures achieve attachment security in adulthood, despite having insecure parent-child relationships in childhood, was the focus of the current study. As internal working models are thought to be formed within relationships, specifically primary attachment bonds (Bowlby, 1969), it was postulated that secondary attachment relationships, specifically those that were positive, had the capacity to revise insecure models of self and other. In the current study, the second…
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Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Cohen, Diane L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries