This “internal working model” is measured in infancy with the “strange situation” task (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters & Wall, 1978) but also with questionnaires in later years.

Attachment style refers to the internal “working models” we develop of how relationships function. They influence the way we relate to important people in our lives.

Attachment orientation is complex; it’s an ongoing interaction between the external world and your internal one, between your circumstances and your interpretation of them. Separating the two ...

Attachment theory is the notion that in the first year of life, ... we tend to think that attachment is associated with romantic relationships through what we call the “internal working model.” ...

Through this relationship we develop an internal schema of the self with the other, this is called an “internal working model”. Secure attachment is the strongest inoculator against future trauma.