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Discuss the significance of early attachments for later peer relationships and adjustment.
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Discuss the significance of early attachments for later peer relationships and adjustment. Attachment is a key area when studying the development of children. Attachment is a secondary drive that is derived from primary drives such as hunger. When a child is hungry they want feeding, this is the primary drive, they look to the mother for food, she provides it and the attachment made is the secondary drive. There are many different approaches, studies and theories concerned with attachment. I intend to look at the attachment stages, categories of secure and insecure attachment, theories of attachment, maternal deprivation and privation and the ways in which they may affect later peer relationships and adjustment. Overall I will discuss whether attachment in the first years of life is significant in determining later peer relationships and adjustment. According to Shaffer (1993) an attachment is: "A close emotional relationship between two persons characterised by...
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