Sentences with phrase «avoidant attachment styles tend»

Children with avoidant attachment styles tend to avoid parents and caregivers.

Avoidant Style «A person with an avoidant attachment style tends to show restricted emotions especially softer emotions like sadness or loneliness.

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This was a very useful book for someone like me who tends to have an avoidant attachment style due to my mother's serious mental illness.

He also tends to have an avoidant attachment style, which means that he feels uncomfortable with too much closeness.

Men generally tend to have an avoidant attachment style while women are more likely to have an anxious style.

The impact of specific life events, such as parental divorce, on attachment orientations in adulthood are important to consider as those who experience this tend to be less securely attached, report greater relationship problems and are more likely to have an avoidant - fearful attachment style [60].

The ASQ includes five scales: (1) ASQ - F1, «Confidence in relationships»; higher scores in this subscale indicate a secure attachment (e.g., «I find it relatively easy to get close to other people»); (2) ASQ - F2, «Need for approval» denotes both worried and fearful aspects of attachment, characterized by an individual's need for others» approval and acceptance (e.g., «It's important for me to avoid doing things that others won't like»); (3) ASQ - F3: the subjects» anxious behavior in searching for others, motivated by the necessity to fulfill dependency needs, is depicted by the subscale «Preoccupation with relationships»; it represents a central topic in the conceptualization of anxious / ambivalent attachment (e.g., «It's very important for me to have a close relationship»); (4) ASQ - F4, «Discomfort with closeness» reflects an avoidant attachment (e.g., «I prefer to keep to myself»), and (5) ASQ - F5 «Relationships as secondary» is typical of a dismissive style, in which subjects tend to emphasize achievements and independence, in order to protect themselves against hurt and vulnerability (e.g., «To ask for help is to admit that you're a failure»).