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Ainsworth and Attachment Theory: The Strange Situation. Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) – considered to be the second founder of the field of attachment – furthered the development of Bowlby’s theory. Ainsworth crucially contributed to attachment theory with the concept of a secure base [1].
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The attachment behavioral system concerns the tendency of an individual to seek security during times of stress (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003), which can be internal (i.e., hunger, fatigue, illness) or from external features of the environment, such as threatening stimuli (Bowlby, 1988). The more extreme the stress, the more intense the attachment sys...
The attachment figure is viewed as a ‘safe haven’, and their role is to correspondingly alter their level of responsiveness to deactivate the infant’s attachment system by promoting feelings of security. George and Solomon (1996) call this reciprocal response of the attachment figure to the infant’s attachment system the ‘caregiving’ system. Bowlby...
When infants feel safe and secure, and their attachment system is deactivated, their energy can be devoted to what Bowlby (1969) refers to as the exploratory behavioral system. The exploratory behavioral system refers to behaviors that drive the organism to interact with the environment in a bid to inspect it, manipulate it, and master it (Mikulinc...
Mary Ainsworth and her colleagues discovered three major patterns that infants attach to their primary caregivers (“mother figures”) from their Strange Situation Procedure(Ainsworth et al., 1978). The study recruited four different samples of infants at around one year of age, and engaged them in the Strange Situation procedure, roughly described b...
Attachment stylesrefer to the particular way in which an individual relates to other people. The style of attachment is formed at the very beginning of life, and once established, it is a style that stays with you and plays out today in how you relate in intimate relationships and in how you parent your children. The concept involves one’s confiden...
Rudolph Schaffer and Peggy Emerson (1964) investigated if attachment develops through a series of stagesby studying 60 babies at monthly intervals for the first 18 months of life (this is known as a longitudinal study). The children were all studied in their own homes, and a regular pattern was identified in the development of attachment. The babie...
According to Bowlby’s theory (1988), when we form our primary attachment, we also make a mental representation of what a relationship is (internal working model), which we then use for all other relationships in the future i.e., friendships, working, and romantic relationships. The different attachment styles may be viewed as internal working model...
Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Bell, S. M. (1970). Attachment, exploration, and separation: Illustrated by the behavior of one-year-olds in a strange situation. Child Development, 41, 49-67. Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1973). The development of infant-mother attachment. In B. Cardwell & H. Ricciuti (Eds.), Review of child development research(Vol. 3, pp. 1-94) Ch...
Apr 3, 2013 · John Ainsworth may be best known for being “the man who built Nairobi” at the turn of the 20th century, when the town was little more than an ordinary railway stop on the line from Mombasa to Kampala. And indeed, during the eight years that Ainsworth served as one of the chief administrators in the colonial government, he achieved a great deal.
The role of social network technologies in online health promotion: a narrative review of theoretical and empirical factors influencing intervention effectiveness. P Balatsoukas, CM Kennedy, I...
John Ainsworth has 142 books on Goodreads with 3815 ratings. John Ainsworth’s most popular book is Doctor Who: Survival of the Fittest.
John Ainsworth was born in the USA. He is a producer and director, known for Blake's 7: The Classic Adventures (2013), Randy (2016) and The Risen (2018). He has been married to Shawn Ryan since 13 May 2006.
