Sentences with phrase «avoidant participants»

On the other hand, anxious - ambivalent participants were found to be more likely to perceive early parental support as inconsistent, while avoidant participants were more likely to report being separated from their mother during childhood and to be distrustful of others [15][16].

Fearful - avoidant participants were less likely to be in a romantic relationship, and those that were tended to report experiencing dissatisfaction in their relationships.

More in detail, across the three conditions, anxious participants showed more negative emotional behaviors and responses, looking for more physical proximity and support seeking than avoidant participants that, they acted by using more deactivating strategies.

In other words, when avoidant participants believed their partners were feeling especially negative (which they believed happened more often than the partner reported), they responded in a more hostile way.

Nickola Overall and colleagues have investigated how avoidant attachment affects how people identify and perceive negative emotions that their partners are experiencing.1 The researchers compared how accurately avoidant participants, as compared to anxious or secure individuals, could identify anger, sadness, or hurt in their partners.

Not exact matches

The participants completed self - report measures regarding perceived family conflict, conflict resolution, avoidant behaviors, and psychological adjustment.

We explored the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of short - term group schema therapy in a sample of eight participants with mixed personality disorders (with a predominant diagnosis of avoidant personality disorder) and high levels of co-morbidity.

Participants will learn about: the concept of Schema Mode Model, establishing connection, limited reparenting, getting through avoidant modes, imagery rescripting in relation to reparenting, trauma, flashbacks and dissociation.

In order to control for confounds on the association of nation attachment with acculturation, we ran a multi-level model with residence status (included as a moderator and coded such that migrants were allocated a value of 1, and participants living in their country of birth a value of − 1), neuroticism, general avoidant and anxious attachment as predictors in the first block.

Control group participants selected secure adventure options significantly more often than either anxious or avoidant choices, F (2, 32) = 180.17, p <.001, η2p =.90, suggesting the relatively well - adjusted nature of this specific study sample.

More specifically, those who were currently in a relationship were less anxious and avoidant than participants who were not currently dating, even if they had been in a relationship in the past at both time points (p <.02), but again not in terms of change in attachment (p >.90).

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

Scheffe post hoc tests suggest that secure participants (M = 22.05) tend to be the most satisfied in their relationships whereas avoidant - fearful participants are the least satisfied (M = 16.73)(see Table 8 for a summary of all the two - way Anovas conducted).

The results suggest that those who are securely attached in their romantic relationships are more satisfied and perceive their parents in a more positive light when reflecting on childhood than insecurely attached participants, especially those in the avoidant - fearful category.

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).

Analysing the responses to the ECR - R scale revealed that 30.4 percent of participants had a secure attachment style, 16.3 percent of participants had an avoidant - dismissing attachment style, 35.2 percent had an avoidant - fearful attachment style, and 18.1 percent had an anxious - preoccupied attachment style (see Figure 2).

The majority of secure participants (94.2 %) were involved in a romantic relationship at the time of the study whereas over half of avoidant - fearful participants (57.5 %) were not involved in a romantic relationship (see Table 7).

In the present study, however, more avoidant - dismissing participants than expected were involved in a romantic relationship.

Specifically, participants with low avoidant attachment reported fewer subsequent intrusive memories when an attachment prime was presented relative to a non-attachment prime (p <.05).

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).

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.

Participants in the two conditions did not differ in terms of age (Attachment: M = 18.53, SD = 1.02; Non-Attachment: M = 19.09, SD = 2.43), ECR Anxious Attachment (Attachment: M = 65.41, SD = 18.16; Non-Attachment: M = 67.00, SD = 17.49), ECR Avoidant Attachment (Attachment: M = 46.81, SD = 15.62; Non-Attachment: M = 46.44, SD = 14.48), DASS Depression (Attachment: M = 3.00, SD = 2.43; Non-Attachment: M = 2.63, SD = 2.43) or DASS Anxiety (Attachment: M = 2.65, SD = 2.58; Non-Attachment: M = 3.00, SD = 2.73) scores.

That is, fewer intrusive memories occurred after being primed with an attachment prime but only for participants with low avoidant attachment tendencies.