The Significance Of Attachment Theory In Children’s Psychology: A Qualitative Analysis

Method

Several different types of methods of data collection and data analysis will be used as they will be contributing to the well-being of individuals and communities in a larger context. The attachment theory will be analysed based on its utilisation within the developmental psychology context (Thompson et al., 2019). The importance of child psychology and attachment theory will be justified by considering the qualitative analysis. Here the entire report will be generated based on qualitative analysis so that different opinions of previous research papers and their authors can be taken into consideration by providing an appropriate result of the topic. 

The particular Research question in this report is suggested to be what is the significance and importance of attachment theory in children’s psychology?

The significant aim of this entire report is to analyse and discuss the contribution of attachment theory in the developmental psychology context of 5 to 18 years old teenagers and children. The objective of the report is also to justify its need to identify the importance of attachment theory in developmental psychology and to measure the role of attachment theory in children’s psychology. Another particular objective is to analyse the criticisms against Bowlby’s attachment theory.

These aims and objectives of the entire Research report will justify its importance in the modern world psychological context so that the development of behavioural and physiological issues that are continually faced by children in the modern world.

The methodological approach in a report plays a great role in significantly impacting the adequacy of results that will be gathered from the entire data analysis process. In this case, the methodological approach will be identified through a qualitative data analysis process where the thematic analysis will be considered. With the appropriate significance of the methodological approach, the secondary data collection process will also be gathered and considered while collecting the data. In this particular case, the data sampling process will be done by considering 10 to 12 journals and articles which will directly contribute to the report topic of attachment theory and its relevance to the developmental psychology of children (Barbaro et al., 2017). The sampling process will also undertake 3 or 4 significant themes related to the research objectives and the research question which have been identified for the report sincerely. These themes will be identified to evaluate the individual potentials of journals and articles which have been previously researched for a better understanding of the developmental psychology field and the involvement of attachment theory in this.

Results

The data will consist of different theoretical, Contextualised And Conceptualized ideas of the attachment theories in different journals and articles. The researchers have conducted the previous research based on creative significance where the frameworks will identify appropriate procedures for conducting thematic analysis in this paper. The data collection and analysis process will be done through thematic and secondary methodological approaches because with the help of thematic analysis the appropriate topic results can be identified and the importance of attachment theory within the developmental psychology and children psychology context will be analysed properly. The research questions and Research objectives have been identified in order to help with the analytical tools where the different things will be contributing to the researcher’s paper. The tools will create a broader perspective of the entire topic of the research paper (Fearon & Roisman, 2017). The thematic analysis will also help in analysing all the research questions and objectives appropriately.

After the thematic analysis, the methodological approach will help in creating a better creative Framework through which the individual themes selected from the research objective will be justified with evidence and previous research papers. The qualitative approach and thematic analysis is considered within this particular report because this way the previously researched fields can be established and analysed with significant frameworks and justified analytical complications. The description and management of the data can be done through thematic analysis which helps in creating a better conclusion early section of the attachment theory and its relevance to developmental psychology and children’s psychological context.

In this particular section, the research will focus on automatic analysis on the particular topic that the research is conducted upon. Here the major topic has been chosen to be the importance of attachment theory in developmental psychology and children’s psychological context. The main purpose of the particular methodological structure and approach is to understand the various themes which will be implemented through thematic analysis for understanding the study. Different pieces of information will be extracted from different literature and secondary sources in this data analysis process. At the same time, the different individual inspiration and repetition will also be guaranteed through the reports’ findings and literature evidence. The overview of the themes will be identified according to the appropriate responses from the different themes (Fraley & Shaver, 2021). The literature review section will be undertaken in the discussion process where the familiarization of relevant journals and the names of the researchers will be applied. The saturation in this particular section will be done after a general analysis will be done after acquiring the date of the studies. The continuous consideration of journals is considered below.

The idea of attachment theory was first developed by a famous British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst named John Bowlby. The attachment theory has a particular tenet very young children or infants have a significant feature where the need to develop positive relationships with at least one primary parent or caregiver for their emotional and social development. This particular theory has a significant development importance within the developmental psychology because the requirement of analysing behaviorism psychology cybernetics and cognitive development was always a need within the psychological section (Meehan, Massavelli & Pachana, 2017). Which significance in the importance it can be identified that among adults and their behaviour towards the children can include several sensitive responding models which directly correlates with the needs of the children. The parent child relationship needs to be studied within the psychological aspect of the modern era. Here the universal behaviour across cultures is studied through the attachment theory which surpasses the major importance of this theory within developmental psychology (Fraley & Shaver, 2021).

The role of attachment theory in children psychological perspectives is massive. According to John bowlby’s attachment is an early experience of an individual child that considers the differences and patterns of attachment between a child and their parents. The creative and impactful Research based on attachment theory has identified the role of this theory in children psychology (Fonagy, 2018). The contributions are later functioning because the caregiving behaviour is predicting the attachment patterns of the infant where the transmission gap between the parental classifications and the classifications of in front strange situations are considered. 

There are some significant and primary classifications which can also be considered as connections between attachment and a child psychology which needs to be monitored and observed thoroughly. The attachment theory helps in identifying the neurobiology, school readiness, culture, empathy, altruism, compassion and health and immune function of a child from the day they are born to a particular age (Demby, Riggs & Kaminski, 2017). This attachment theory directly helps with the clinical and translational applications of children’s behaviour so that during their infancy and beyond the occurrence of any situation or incident can be tracked according to their hypothesis.

Children psychology is a speciality where attachment theory is most relevant and suitable. Their influential theories which are directly conducted in the field of psychology to identify the attachment theory and its pages of the child caregiver attachment development process from the age of 0 to 23 years. Simultaneously the attitude and attachment criteria of the children change while their transit from the age of 5 years to 18 years (Zimmer-Gembeck et al., 2017). Until the child has entered adolescence the primary attitude and behaviour will reflect the significant attachment development criteria of the child and their perspective through this theoretical implementation.

During 1936 British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby noticed that there were some troubles forming for the children in creating a close relationship with the others. He even surely looked into the children’s family histories and endured the disruptions at their early age domestically. The conclusion predicted by the psychiatrist is that children have this strange feature of creating and healthy development of relationships with at least one primary person to improve their own emotional and social development process throughout life (Schore, 2017). There were a number of perspectives that developed his ideas through the psychodynamic theory while conducting the attachment theory proportionately. 

In this particular theory there are four major stages which are considered to be birth to 3 months, from 3 months to 6 months, from six months to three years, and from three years until childhood ends (Crittenden, 2017). These four stages and their situations are continuously creating the particular attachment pattern for an infant. The scenarios have also been created on which basis the caregivers are leaving the infants and where the infants are being left with the stranger. The starting and the ending point are always based on separation but the observations have clarified that the four attachment patterns are segregating secure attachment avoidant attachment resistant attachment and disorganised attachment process (Granqvist, 2021). Here these criterias are continuously showing the level where the attachments are being developed within the infant from birth to years where childhood ends.

The attachment theory created by John bowlby might have gotten several applauds but at the same time there are several criticisms which have been passed on to the psychologist. According to Rutter he has accused Bowlby of not distinguishing the ideas of privation and the privation properly (Fearon & Roisman, 2017). Due to the lack of complete attachment bond there have been several criticisms that it is rather a loss then the lack of bond. Dadar psychiatrist also has raised up on the quality of the attachment born where the most important factor is depreciation in their critical period for stop the idea of psychology is entirely dependent on the separation where ball bi has failed on providing the idea of maternal deprivation assessment process (Heard, Lake & McCluskey, 2018). Later Michael Rutter wrote a book named maternal deprivation reassessed in 1972 where he suggested that John may have oversimplified the entire concept of maternal deprivation.

There is another factor where John Bowlby has missed out on the emotional experiences of infants that they have with their caretakers might affect the vulnerability and the psychological disorders among adults. The clinical practice and others have also criticized the attachment theory as it misses out on one particular point which is the human development criteria (Vicedo, 2017). The only limitation of the attachment theory is based on the lack of recognition of the profound influence created by personal, ethnic, gender, social class, and cultural development purposes.

From the entire thematic analysis and the qualitative analysis it can be said that attachment theory plays a great role within the developmental psychological contexts but at the same time that attachment theory also plays an essential role within children psychology. Implications of attachment theory John Bowlby has become a psychiatrist and psychologist for the children because this theory simultaneously helps with the importance of monitoring the child relationship with their mother, father and caregivers in terms of cognitive, physical, social and emotional development purposes (Fonagy et al., 2018). Specifically the inference are shaped when they are born to believe that separation among mother and later maladjustment will be a specific change that they will have to go through. Here the attachment here will also provide safety and security that is provided to the children by the caregivers in context of developing their social and emotional needs and behaviour. According to the result it can be easily identified that the concept of attachment theory simultaneously improves the well-being of the children from a very early age (Fitzgerald, 2020).

The significance of attachment theory in the developmental psychology is based on the primary caregivers and their relationship with the children when they are infants. Then needs of the infants continuously allowed the development opportunities where their sense of security is gathered. According to the understanding of children and their world the sense of security is one aspect which continuously elaborates the early attachment relationships of the children and their developmental purposes of psychology (Atkinson 2019). Building a complex and highly generative theory such as the attachment theory can be different but at the same time the infant attachment requires differences in the 21st century due to the changes in the social and emotional upfronts.children continuously thrive and grow through different contexts of dependable and close relationships while laugh not students responsive interaction security and engagement is explored by their caregivers only. The long lasting relationship is the main criteria of the children so that they are developed and do not get disrupted at any point of time and an appropriate amount of theoretical perspective is also sustained (Duschinsky et al., 2020). The attachment theory may have significant differences and criticisms existing in the context of developmental psychology but the importance of this theory in children’s psychological aspect is enormous. The conclusions have always been created on the basis of an earlier environment and nurturing relationships which are essential for the children.

Irrespective of all the criticisms, encouragement is considered to be an essential form of developing the social and psychological needs of children in the modern era. Here John Bowlby attachment theory will simultaneously help and has always been crucial support for many parents who directly simplifies a model of infant mother attachment or bond. Initial consideration in this particular segment has developed the developmental precursors which directly maintains the adolescence period and monitors the changes in the attitude and development of psychology of the children (Harlow, 2021). The mechanism that directly provides attachment related experiences of the child that functions through their past experiences. There are several analytic levels through which the behaviour can be monitored but the significant attachment theory created by John helps to identify the cognitive behaviour which is directly related to the complex relationship and attachment bond of the child and their caregivers (White & Gibson, 2019).

Conclusion

From the entire study in research paper it can be analysed and concluded that the significant importance of attachment theory is massive in children psychology and in the context of developmental psychology. The attachment theory plays a great role in monitoring and observing the psychology that the children go through from the time of their birth. The attachment theory tries to enhance the child-parent attachments after considering the amount of time and social or emotional bond built between the caregivers and the children. The enhancement of child parent attachments of bones are continuously monitored through the attachment theory as it is considered while checking the the attitude of the children at a certain age.

The criticisms against bowlby’s attachment theory are also analyse after considering the missing information that needed to pee mention while constructing the intern attachment theory. Teenagers ageing from 5 years to 18 years go through different behavioural and cognitive development which can be difficult to monitor by the attachment theory only due to which there are psychiatrists who have accused John to not include the idea of maternal deprivation in a detailed manner. This simplification can be considered to be a significant limitation for the the attachment theory created by John bowlby but the importance of this particular study and theory in the developmental psychology and children psychology is enormous. 

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