Sentences with phrase «avoidant tendencies»

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).

Others may have less intense avoidant tendencies, and actually desire to be in a relationship, but their brains keep reacting in ways that sabotage their attempts at intimacy.

In order to successfully connect with a special someone, they will have to gain insight into their avoidant tendencies, and embark on a journey to change.

Those who had caregivers who were unavailable, unresponsive, or overly intrusive may have learned to take care of their own needs from a young age and might have developed avoidant tendencies as a result.

A person with commitment issues may display maladaptive behaviors within romantic relationships, and those who display avoidant tendencies may be less happy, have less satisfying relationships, and be more prone to illness than other individuals.

Not exact matches

This article is a brief review of what to understand about the tendencies of the Avoidant individual.

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.

In contrast, those with avoidant attachment tendencies will hypoactivate their attachment system and distance themselves from others during threat as a means of coping.

Insecure attachments can result in people having anxious or 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.

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