The relationship with Mania is harder to interpret but it could be that since
the Anxious insecure attachment style is the least common style and as such it is likely that there were relatively few in the sample, and consequentially participants scored too low on this scale to have the expected effect.
Not exact matches
The scientific story has developed from
attachment as care - giving and protective (or the opposite: deprivation, inadequacy, or
insecure), to how
attachment may influence an individual's sense of themselves, their part in relationships, and their capacity to problem - solve and look after themselves —
attachment styles, described as «inner working models» in the psychoanalytic literature which may persist into adult life (as secure,
anxious, avoidant, or disorganised).
By contrast, people who develop an
anxious or
insecure attachment style — typically due to inconsistent parental attention during the first years of life — are apt to try to keep a defunct relationship going rather than suffer the pain of dissolving it.
There are three simple
attachment styles: secure,
insecure -
anxious, and
insecure - avoidant.
If the two types of
insecure attachment styles meet in one relationship, the commitments that would provide security to the
anxious partner would be difficult for the avoidant partner.
When someone has an
insecure attachment style, they either exhibit avoidant or
anxious behaviors to cope with this... Read more»
When someone has an
insecure attachment style, they either exhibit avoidant or
anxious behaviors to cope with this
attachment insecurity.
Robert's inability to be validating of her, and vulnerable with himself, perfectly mated with her
insecure anxious attachment style.
In terms of
attachment styles, the
insecure anxious style is expected to positively predict Mania, and the avoidant
style to positively predict Ludus.