Sentences with phrase «about avoidant attachment»

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.

Not exact matches

Those with avoidant attachment styles are more hesitant to become close to others as a general rule and appreciate more solo time, while anxious attachment styles desire greater closeness and might have unrealistic expectations about their partner's comfort around intimacy.

Given what you describe about your ex's behavior, it is possible that she terminated the relationship because of having an avoidant attachment style, meaning that she is fearful about entering and becoming too close to others.1 People with avoidant attachment styles are more likely than people with other styles to end relationships when they start getting too intimate2 and to use indirect strategies to do so, such as avoiding direct communication about the real problems that are leading to the break - up.3 In other words, she may have been holding back negative feelings.

Alpha coefficients of (reliability) questions about the subscales of secure, avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles regarding a student sample (1480 people) were calculated to be respectively 0.86, 0.84 and 0.85 for all the subjects, which indicate good internal consistency of Adult Attachmattachment styles regarding a student sample (1480 people) were calculated to be respectively 0.86, 0.84 and 0.85 for all the subjects, which indicate good internal consistency of Adult AttachmentAttachment Scale.

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.

In a study of 118 male and female college students, people who had either the anxious - ambivalent or avoidant attachment styles also had more irrational beliefs about their relationship than those with a secure adult attachment style.

An overview of all American studies with non-clinical samples (21 samples with a total of 1,584 infants, conducted between 1977 and 1990) shows that about 67 % of the infants were classified as secure, 21 % as insecure - avoidant and 12 % as insecure - ambivalent.5 A central issue in attachment theory and research is what causes some infants to develop an insecure attachment relationship while other infants feel secure.