I believe that even though studies and evidence show that a healthy childhood attachment will eventually yield well-being and a healthy personal life and mental health in adulthood, it is too broad of a claim to say that it must be true. There are far too many variables and unpredictable changes and events that may occur between childhood and adolescence and adulthood which may alter the child/person to the point that even if the child had a healthy attachment, he may grow up to have an unhealthy personal life and affected mental health. But if nothing scarring or terrible happens to the child during childhood or adolescence, the child should theoretically be able to grow up to have a healthy personal life and have good mental health.
I agree with the above. Even children who have amazing relationships with their mothers and are given nothing but love, attention and safety from her can grow up to have unhealthy personal lives. Furthermore, children with terrible relationships with their mothers can grow up to be perfectly healthy and happy. I agree that there are probably countless variables which determine later adjustment, one of which would be attachment.
This certainly makes sense, and I agree with the explaination. It is likely that all these variables constitute a third category of variables that affect the other 2(those being attachment to caregiver and well-being). The only place where your explaination differs from mine is that your variables can alter the dependant variable, but necesarily the child's attachment to the caregiver, while mine states that the variables influence both.
I perfectly agree with you. There are always exceptions that are seem throughout life. I have a friend who used to always argue with his mom and dad. He is very rebellious towards his family. But he turns out to be quite smart and has good relationships with friends. I don't think attachment really matters that much. A baby experienced too much before he actually turn into an adult. Therefore, solely concluding his development as a result of attachment may be elusive. So you guys are quite right!
I believe I disagree with that. When you're an infant, and if you have a good attachment with your parent/s, but say, your parent/s aren't good with relationships themselves, e.i. divorce or one of your parents was never present, even though your mother may have exhibited to you a strong relationship, but her examples otherwise are poor, then potentially you yourself could also have that same potential to not be good at relationships as well, only following in the footsteps of your parent. Basically, can't how your parents act in relationships outside of yourself, also influence whatever types of relationships you are capable of building in the future. monkey see monkey do. Hopefully that makes sense
I agree with the original post. There are cases in which traumas as an adult can be the cause of a poor quality of life later on, even if the person had a healthy attachment to the mother as a baby. There are too many underlying variables to make a direct causal relationship between healthy attachment to the mother as a baby and wellbeing as an adult.
