Role of the Father - ATTACHMENT (psychology)

Do you do AQA A Level Psychology?

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Here is a summarised note form of Role of the Father. I have more detailed notes if you want them let me know.


Multiple Attachments and the Role of the Father
Contribution of fathers
Schaffer and Emerson – One third of the infants preferred the father to the mother.
Rohner and Veneziano - Argued that father love is important for social competence and academic achievement. They say this has been lost in America’s traditional gender roles.
The importance of the quality of attachment
It is not enough to just have the father around, he needs to do a good job!
Verissimo – found a positive correlation between the quality of the father relationship and the number of friends at pre school.
The link to social skills
Gottman and Katz found that involved fathers had children who were more popular, less aggressive and had high quality friendships.
Differences to the mother attachment
Geiger argued that mother and father attachments serve different purposes (father = play, mother = nurturing).
Absent Fathers
Gottman found no difference in the social adjustment of children brought up by heterosexual and lesbian parents.
Golombok et al found that the quality of the relationship between parent and child was the best predictor of the child’s social adjustment (it didn’t matter if the parents were single, heterosexual and together, or homosexual and living together).

ive got most of this stuff, i got verissimo, grossman and golombok but i have enough research evidence, i need like knowledge a01?

or is it enough just to include research studies?

Yep, you can use the studies as AO1 just make sure to have the A03. The most marks you can get for AO1 is 6 so studies should be okay if you put enough detail into it

ahh right okay, also, i have 3 a03 points which are

biological restraints = gender of primary caregiver is largely dictated by society, women expected to be caring and sensitive. biologically they have high levels of oestrogen and lower levels of testosterone than men . therefore social + biological restraints on who primary caregiver is.

inconsistent findings = research into role of father is confusing as different researchers interested in different research qs. some interested in fathers as secondary attachement figures. confusing to answer the question - what is the role of the father?

and lastly....
single/same sex parent families = grossman found that fathers as seconary attachment figures had important role and golombok found that children grown up in single or same sex families didnt develop any differently than 2 parent hetrosexual families therefore father as secondary attachment figure is not important.


also, whats the difference between reciprocity and interaction synchrony?

AO3 looking good, I think you'll nail it.

Reciprocity = The behaviour of one causes a reaction in the other. E.g. The infant cries and the caregiver picks them up.
Interactional Synchrony = The infant and caregiver mirror each other, e.g. the infant smiles and the caregiver smiles back.

Here is a summarised note form of Role of the Father. I have more detailed notes if you want them let me know.


Multiple Attachments and the Role of the Father
Contribution of fathers
Schaffer and Emerson – One third of the infants preferred the father to the mother.
Rohner and Veneziano - Argued that father love is important for social competence and academic achievement. They say this has been lost in America’s traditional gender roles.
The importance of the quality of attachment
It is not enough to just have the father around, he needs to do a good job!
Verissimo – found a positive correlation between the quality of the father relationship and the number of friends at pre school.
The link to social skills
Gottman and Katz found that involved fathers had children who were more popular, less aggressive and had high quality friendships.
Differences to the mother attachment
Geiger argued that mother and father attachments serve different purposes (father = play, mother = nurturing).
Absent Fathers
Gottman found no difference in the social adjustment of children brought up by heterosexual and lesbian parents.
Golombok et al found that the quality of the relationship between parent and child was the best predictor of the child’s social adjustment (it didn’t matter if the parents were single, heterosexual and together, or homosexual and living together).

right i got it, thank you so much xx

ill probably end up asking you for help this weekend , before the exam ahaha

No problem
And aha if you need anything else i'll be happy to help, this helps with my own revision too

Could I have the detailed notes?

goodluck with the exam though, you'll smash it