Sentences with phrase «adult attachment insecurity»

Numerous studies have examined attachment in intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, but less is known about adult attachment insecurity relative to victimization.

In the present study, adult attachment insecurity was related to lower levels of mindful awareness, but when both dimensions were entered into a regression model predicting mindfulness, the unique effect of attachment - related avoidance was significant, whereas that of attachment - related anxiety was only marginally significant.

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(Alternating custody, e.g. week - on / week - off, was associated with disorganized attachment in 60 percent of infants under 18 months; older children and adults who had endured this arrangement as youngsters exhibited what the researcher described as «alarming levels of emotional insecurity and poor ability to regulate strong emotion.»)

It utilised an interview measure of adult attachment which allowed for an assessment of both type of attachment style and the degree of insecurity of attachment.

Results of Study 2 suggest that retrospective reports of maternal attachment insecurity are associated with significantly higher LMS scores, anxious and depressive symptoms, adult romantic attachment insecurity, and potentially high - risk relationship behaviors.

Briefly, researchers think of adult attachment as a tendency to approach relationships in a particular way, primarily based on experiences with childhood caregivers.2 Usually, researchers view attachment in terms of the degree and kind of insecurity (avoidance or anxiety) a person might have (see our earlier work for a full review of how attachment styles play out in relationships).

They used two dimensions of attachment to study the relationship between attachment insecurity and violent anger in adult love relationships.

Alternating custody, e.g. week - on / week - off, was associated with disorganized attachment in 60 percent of infants under 18 months; older children and adults who had endured this arrangement as youngsters exhibited what the researcher described as «alarming levels of emotional insecurity and poor ability to regulate strong emotion.»

As in children, attachment behavior in adults involves seeking proximity to a significant other, and that other's responses influence the security or insecurity of internal relational schemas (Fraley & Shaver, 2008; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a).