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Infant Caregivers and Attachment Behaviors

 

With such assurance the individual is feeling courageous and motivated to explore the world. According to Ainsworth and her colleagues this pattern is promoted in the early years of life by a parent or a caregiver especially by mother being available, sensitive to her child needs and also when she acts responsively when a child seeks comfort and protection (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 2014). Second pattern described by Ainsworth and her colleagues is that of anxious resistant attachment in which a person feels doubtful and concerned if whether his parent will act responsively to his needs. Because of such uncertainty a child is always liable to separation anxiety, he is likely to be clinging and feels anxious about the exploration of the world. This pattern is being promoted by a parent or a caregiver responding helpfully and being available on some occasions but not on others. In this pattern where conflict is indisputable and as clinical findings show threats of abandonment are used as means of control (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 2014). Third pattern which is called anxious avoidant attachment in which the individual does not feel assured that when he will seek for help and/or care that his caregiver will respond helpfully and instead of that the individual is expecting to be rebuffed. With a reference by being rebuffed in early years of life such a person would try to live his life without the love and/or support of others, try to be as much self-sufficient as he can be, furthermore even diagnosed as narcissistic or even as a person which is diagnosed with having a 'False Self' disorder (which was first described by Dr Donald Winnicott in 1960) (Bowlby, 1990). Although the conflict in this pattern is more hidden but it is evident that this pattern is an outcome of the individual's mother continually rejecting him when he comes to her or seeks for comfort and attention.


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