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Attachment theory focuses on relationships and bonds (particularly long-term) between people, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. It is a psychological explanation for the emotional bonds and relationships between people.
Attachment theory is a psychological theory developed by British psychologist John Bowlby that explains how humans form emotional bonds with others, particularly in the context of close relationships.
Attachment describes the deep, long-term bonds that form between two people. John Bowlby originated attachment theory to explain how these bonds form between an infant and a caregiver, and Mary Ainsworth later expanded on his ideas.
Bowlby’s four stages of attachment development are pre-attachment stage (birth to 6 weeks), attachment-in-the-making (6 weeks to 6-8 months), clear-cut attachment (6-8 Months to 18-24 months), and formation of reciprocal relationships (18-24 months and beyond).
attachment theory, in developmental psychology, the theory that humans are born with a need to form a close emotional bond with a caregiver and that such a bond will develop during the first six months of a child’s life if the caregiver is appropriately responsive.
Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others, because this will help them to survive. Bowlby argued that a child forms many attachments, but one of these is qualitatively different.
Attachment theory categorizes individuals into different attachment patterns based on how they respond to separations and reunions with caregivers. These patterns include secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized.
Attachment theory is based upon the idea that the quality of one’s earliest relationship (with the primary caretaker) influences social development and subsequent relationships (Prior & Glaser, 2006). From: Boundaries of Self and Reality Online, 2017. About this page. Add to Mendeley Set alert.
a theory that (a) suggests an evolutionarily advantage, especially in primates, for the forming of close emotional bonds with significant others, and (b) characterizes four different types of relationships between human infants and caregivers.
Attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary framework concerning the relationships between humans, particularly the importance of early bonds between infants and their primary caregivers.