Not exact matches
There have been, over the years, four different types of
attachment patterns that we can
see between infant and parent: secure,
avoidant, anxious, and disorganized [2][3].
This book helped me to understand my
avoidant attachment style and
see the lies I lived by more clearly.
We've written a lot about
avoidant attachment (
see here and here for more on
attachment), but here's a quick summary: Those who are high in avoidance tend to be uncomfortable with intimacy, want less closeness in their relationships, and distrust others more.
The child with an
avoidant attachment style grows up
seeing the world as a battleground where everybody is a potential threat not to be trusted.
If you have a pattern of only having short term relationships, or feeling like you sabotage relationships when you get close to someone, it might be worth learning more about having an
avoidant attachment style to
see if it fits for you.
An insecure -
avoidant child will develop an internal working model in which it
sees itself as unworthy because its primary
attachment figure has reacted negatively to it during the sensitive period for
attachment formation.
For instance, parental stress seems to be associated to both anxiety and avoidance of
attachment, because of the difficulties they imply in coping with distress, but in different ways: more
avoidant women attribute negative distress to a characteristic of the baby and not situational factors; more anxious women make more mistakes in recognizing fear and attribute distress to physical factors, then they could show an out of sync response to the babies» distress signs (Leerkes and Siepak, 2006; for a complete review of a social cognition approach to parenting processes and behaviors,
see: Jones et al., 2015a, b).
The total indirect effect of
avoidant attachment on emotional distress through the two mediators had a coefficient of 0.65, with 95 % BC CIs of − 0.0209 to 1.6395 (
see Table 5 Supplementary Material).
Analysing the responses to the ECR - R scale revealed that 30.4 percent of participants had a secure
attachment style, 16.3 percent of participants had an
avoidant - dismissing
attachment style, 35.2 percent had an
avoidant - fearful
attachment style, and 18.1 percent had an anxious - preoccupied
attachment style (
see Figure 2).