Among rejected partners, anxious attachment positively predicted pursuit behaviors; and, among disengagers,
avoidant attachment negatively predicted being the target of aggressive behaviors.
Not exact matches
The results indicated positive correlations between secure
attachment and PWB dimensions, whereas
avoidant and anxious
attachment were
negatively associated with PWB.
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.
Women's secure and
avoidant attachment styles were
negatively associated with men's social intimacy, which was in turn
negatively associated with men's destructive conflict and positively associated with men's constructive conflict.
As expected,
attachment anxiety was strongly
negatively associated with the proportion of secure responses selected in the control version of the interactive program, b = -0.10, t (31) = -3.88, p =.001, R2 =.33, and strongly positively associated with the proportion of anxious responses selected, b = 0.76, t (31) = 3.64, p =.001, R2 =.30, but not associated with the proportion of
avoidant responses selected, b = 0.02, t (31) = 1.77, p =.09, R2 =.09 (Figure 2).
Men's anxious and
avoidant attachment styles were
negatively associated with women's social intimacy and women's secure
attachment was additionally associated with their own greater social intimacy.
Anxious and
avoidant attachment were expected to be
negatively related to couples» intimacy, which would in turn be
negatively associated with destructive conflict.
Avoidant attachment with father was associated
negatively with adolescents» perceived same - sex peer competence two years later, controlling for self - esteem, whereas mother
attachment was not.