Sentences with phrase «avoidant attachment styles describe»

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These children are also described as less disruptive, less aggressive, and more mature than children with ambivalent or avoidant attachment styles.

Based on the responses the researchers observed, Ainsworth described three major styles of attachment: secure attachment, ambivalent - insecure attachment, and avoidant - insecure attachment.

The scientific story has developed from attachment as care - giving and protective (or the opposite: deprivation, inadequacy, or insecure), to how attachment may influence an individual's sense of themselves, their part in relationships, and their capacity to problem - solve and look after themselves — attachment styles, described as «inner working models» in the psychoanalytic literature which may persist into adult life (as secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganised).

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.

Bowlby described three different attachment styles based on the level of security in the attachment bond: Secure, anxious / ambivalent, and avoidant.

They develop anxious and avoidant attachment styles and behave like pursuers and distances described in ``

They develop anxious and avoidant attachment styles and behave like pursuers and distances described in «The Dance of Intimacy.»

In contrast, participants with an avoidant - fearful attachment style used more negative adjectives to describe their parents.

The Scheffe post hoc test indicated that participants with an avoidant - fearful attachment style used more negative adjectives to describe their mother (M = 3.61), compared to securely attached participants (M = 1.67).