ABSTRACT
The traditional psychological model postulated that there are two kinds of drives, primary and secondary, and it was thought that bonding between individuals developed because of these drives. Food and sex were considered as primary, and ‘dependency’ to have these met by others as secondary. However, in the work of John Bowlby (1950) on the ill effects on personality development from deprivation of maternal care, these beliefs began to be questioned as regards their adequacy in explaining attachment behaviour. Bowlby believed that the development of a human child’s tie to its mother can be better understood in terms of a model derived from ethology and he outlined a theory of attachment.
