Sentences with phrase «anxious romantic attachments»

You and Malley - Morrison (2000) claimed that East Asians are particularly prone to anxious romantic attachments as they strive for self - acceptance by gaining the romantic approval of highly valued others.

Hindy and Schwarz maintain that both men and women feel the extreme highs and lows of «anxious romantic attachments.»

We believe that this survey is the best test psychologists have yet devised for capturing what poets, playwrights, and novelists for thousands of years have called lovesickness and what in this book is called insecure romantic or anxious romantic attachment.

Evans and Wertheim (1998) found in their sample of young adult females that anxious romantic attachment was associated with drive for thinness and general body dissatisfaction.

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In addition, persons with an anxious attachment style (i.e., people who fear being abandoned by their romantic partners) were more likely to label casual behaviors as cheating than those who are more secure.

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.

There are two dominant forms of attachment problems in romantic relationships: anxious attachment styles and avoidant attachment styles.

When anxious attachers sense that their romantic connection is threatened, their attachment system goes haywire.

Research has shown that attachment style effects love attitudes, for example, Fricker and Moore (2002) conducted a study with dating couples and revealed that secure romantic attachment correlated positively with the Agape and Eros love styles whereas the anxious attachment was positively related to the Manic love style.

The present study examines the pattern of relationships between adult romantic attachment, cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety and depression, self - reported anxious and depressive symptoms, and both general and specific relationship outcomes.

The structural model linking anxious and avoidant romantic attachment with body appreciation and the sexual functioning domains and its parameter estimation results, with * p <.05