Assertion: attachment's child | /r/HasAspect | secure attachment
Facets:
value: to their primary caregiver
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to his primary attachment figure
type: OTHER
value: with their parent/caregiver
type: OTHER
value: to their father
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to his mother
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Children who have a secure attachment to their primary caregiver will grow to have higher self-esteem as well as better self-reliance.
text: These children had an insecure attachment to their primary caregiver.
text: In reviewing the literature on maltreatment, attachment, and health outcomes, they note that prior research has suggested that family environment predicts adult attachment style, and that children from abusive homes are more likely to have insecure attachments.
text: Because children who have secure attachments exhibit an eagerness to learn, it is easy to identify those who have insecure attachments by referring to age-appropriate developmental milestones.
text: Bowlby's colleague Mary Ainsworth identified that an important factor which determines whether a child will have a secure or insecure attachment is the degree of sensitivity shown by their caregiver:
text: Playing with children is more common when parents and children have a secure attachment.
text: Indeed the child can have a secure attachment to his mother, but an avoidant attachment to his father, and an anxious attachment to an aunt, and so on.
text: In childhood: A child who grows up having a secure attachment with their parent/caregiver generally feels content, safe, and explorative.
text: Children who have a secure attachment to their father tend to have improved developmental outcomes in a variety of ways including having improved social abilities with their peers, having fewer problem behaviours, and the paternal effects on developing a greater level of emotional self-regulation are especially significant.
text: So a child could have an insecure attachment to his primary attachment figure and a secure attachment to a secondary attachment figure.
text: Children who have insecure attachments often don’t know what to expect and they live in an unpredictable world.