This podcast was by Bob Marvin, one of Mary Ainsworth's students. I found this a great way of understanding the outcomes of the 'Strange situation experiment'. Bob Marvin also gives a great insight into Mary Ainsworth's life.
The main points I took from this were:
- Type A (Insecure Avoidant) Mother returns, child acknowledges mother, then turns to carry on playing. This is known to be the most independent classification, in the past this has been seen as a positive trait, however a child of this type is said to be insecure and is lacking the emotional comfort a child needs. Parent's of this type are said to only respond to their child's positive behaviour.
- Type B (Secure Attachment) Mother comforts their child when they return, child id easily pacified and continues to play. Parents of type B react to both positive and negative signals.
- Type C (Insecure Ambivalent) Mother only responds to negative signals from their child.
- Type D (Previously known as Unclassified/Disorganised.) Child may appear dazed when their Mother returns to the room. Type D has been connected with personality disorders in adult life.
- Bob Marvin talks about adult attachment in this programme. He says that a person may be insecurely attached as a child but, through positive attachments, become securely attached in adult life. This is known as Earned Secure.
Hearing that the children we may know as insecure can become secure in the future gives me a warm fuzzy feeling! It seems all may not be lost when it comes to attachment theory.
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