Question

In your experience with children (both your own and/or others) how do you think their individual attributes and temperamental styles interact with the ways their parents treat them to determine the attachment characteristics and styles they develop? How does their nature and temperamental predisposition affect the way people treat them and vice-versa? Give one example of a child and show how, for this child, attachment and temperament interact.

Answer 1

Children develop different patterns of behavior based on experiences and interactions with their parents and significant others. Children are very innocent and they seek the attention of their caregivers and try to imitate their behavior patterns and also how parents and significant others behave and lifestyle and attachment style have the significant effect on how they behave and also their temperamental styles.
The nature and temperamental styles of children are greatly affected by the environment around them and the way people behave with them and around them determine a lot about how the child is going to develop different patterns of behavior and temperament. The behavior patterns of caregivers can best be described as a style to manage relationships in future. The pattern, based on the person’s earliest experiences, is the approach the person uses to manage and maintain relationships.
For example, if the child is provided with the secure and healthy environment then there is a development of behavior wherein future person is able to achieve the intimacy in relationships with others with which the person is most comfortable and familiar.