Summary: Difficult To Regulate Behavior

This shows that during school years, children often are taught to reflect on their behaviours. However, children who are not helped to do this by their caregivers will find it increasingly difficult to regulate their behaviour. This will affect both their inner experience of themselves and their outer experience of relationships with peers (including both a best friend peer attachment of groups of friends), but in order to gain progress to allow the child to become independent it is important to note that no child is the same and therefore put in groups to categorise their behaviours.

Main and Cassidy (1988) carried out further research of Ainsworths Strange Situation procedure and found that Secure (B) children appear relaxed throughout