That is, fewer intrusive memories occurred after being primed with an attachment prime but only for participants with low
avoidant attachment tendencies.
Participants with low
avoidant attachment tendencies who received the attachment primes recalled fewer memories and reported fewer intrusions than those who received the non-attachment primes.
Insecure attachments can result in people having anxious or
avoidant attachment tendencies.
In contrast, those with
avoidant attachment tendencies will hypoactivate their attachment system and distance themselves from others during threat as a means of coping.
Not exact matches
Fearful nation
attachment correlated with both anxious and
avoidant attachment models, reflected in this particular orientation representing both the ruminating
tendencies of anxious
attachment, and the characteristic negative other model of
avoidant attachment.
Given that
avoidant attachment is characterized by a
tendency to withdraw from intimacy, the guided virtual relationship and the supportive responses of the virtual partner may have been insufficiently immersive to access
avoidant attachment schema.
Numerous researchers have noted a range of
attachment styles beyond the dichotomony of
avoidant /
attachment dimensions [40]; for example, a larger sample would have allowed more nuanced examination of participants with different permutations of
attachment style (e.g. high anxious and high
avoidant tendencies).