A positive association was also found
between avoidant coping and maternal distress.
There was no significant correlation
between avoidant attachment and depressive symptoms, or between anxious attachment and overall emotional distress, anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms.
Not exact matches
There have been, over the years, four different types of attachment patterns that we can see
between infant and parent: secure,
avoidant, anxious, and disorganized [2][3].
These cats can be friendly towards humans, or they can be feral (unsocialized and
avoidant of humans), or they may fall somewhere on the spectrum
between friendly and feral.
This longitudinal study on coping in a sample of National Guard couples examined the association
between the predeployment coping (active vs.
avoidant) of each in the relationship, and their own and their significant others» mental health (anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]-RRB- and family well - being (dyadic adjustment and parenting stress) postdeployment.
In her series of «strange situation» experiments starting in 1969, Dr. Mary Ainsworth expanded attachment theory by identifying three separate categories of bonding that occur
between infants and their primary caregiver: secure, anxious / ambivalent, or anxious /
avoidant (Ainsworth, 1985).
Attentional
avoidant biases as mediators in the association
between experiential avoidance and blood pressure in dementia family caregivers
Also, a comparison of the first and last children showed that a significant difference existed
between the mean of first and last children in
avoidant attachment style (first children were higher than that of last children).
Consistently with the literature (Aldao et al., 2010; Wells, 2008; Clark & Beck, 2009), the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations
between negative beliefs about emotions and the adoption of maladaptive regulation strategies (i.e. rumination, suppression, emotional avoidance, and
avoidant coping).
This internet study explored the mediating effects of anxious and
avoidant attachment on the link
between relationship equality discrepancy and relationship satisfaction among 75 cohabitating U.S. and Canadian women's same - sex couples.
Early attachment research focused on the bond
between children and their caregivers and documented qualitative differences in attachment patterns; three patterns were discriminated: secure,
avoidant, and ambivalent.
Also, a significant relationship exists
between this index and
avoidant attachment style, which is inverse with regard
That's basically his attitude towards relationships
between partners with anxious and
avoidant attachment styles.
The results indicated positive correlations
between secure attachment and PWB dimensions, whereas
avoidant and anxious attachment were negatively associated with PWB.
Pia Mellody, internationally known author, lecturer and workshop presenter talks about this dynamic as the dance
between a Love
Avoidant and Love Addict.
Cross-addictions exist often with body / food / eating related issues as well as drugs and alcohol and other behaviors; there is often a cycling
between the out - of - control behavior and an abstinent or
avoidant pattern.
A number of things might be contributing to the phenomenon known as stashing, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Anita A. Chlipala author of First Comes Us: The Busy Couple's Guide to Lasting Love thinks there's a link
between this and the
avoidant attachment style.
Avoidant / ambivalent attachment style as a mediator
between abusive childhood experiences and adult relationship difficulties.
This investigation examined the relationship
between attachment styles secure, ambivalent and
avoidant (differentiated into a withdrawing and a cooperative subtype) and the coping modes vigilance and cognitive avoidance in a sample of 62 German adults.
An overview of all American studies with non-clinical samples (21 samples with a total of 1,584 infants, conducted
between 1977 and 1990) shows that about 67 % of the infants were classified as secure, 21 % as insecure -
avoidant and 12 % as insecure - ambivalent.5 A central issue in attachment theory and research is what causes some infants to develop an insecure attachment relationship while other infants feel secure.
The study disaggregates stress measures to reflect gender differences in the experience of stress, examining whether
avoidant, approach, and action coping condition the relationship
between stress and well - being.
Most notably, they distinguished
between two forms of
avoidant attachment:
avoidant - fearful and
avoidant - dismissive.
LAWRENCE — A new investigation appearing this week in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests a strong association
between a person's attachment style — how
avoidant or anxious people are in their close relationships — and their perception and management of social networks like Fa
Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters and Wall [3] initially distinguished
between three styles of attachment in infancy: secure, anxious / ambivalent, and
avoidant.
Finally, we found significant concordance
between the diary and Strange Situation scales for secure and
avoidant behaviors.This research is part of an ongoing study of infants in foster care conducted at the University of Delaware in collaboration with the Baltimore City Department of Social Services and Delaware Department of Family Services.
It is apparent that the relationship
between cortisol response and response to stress is not linearly related to the
avoidant / anxious dimensions.
Results show wide differences
between studies, the mean rate of secure attachment was 26 % (median = 25.9, range 0 — 47 %),
avoidant 23 % (median = 24.8, range 2.5 — 55.5 %), ambivalent 11.8 % (median = 10.6, range 0 — 26 %) and disorganised 43.6 % (median = 48.6, range 5.3 — 65.8 %).
Meta - analytic evidence [59] rather suggests, that the association
between insecure attachment and internalizing strategies is rather small, and the effect solely explained by
avoidant (i.e. dismissing) attachment.
When both mother and father overcontrol were evaluated in the same models, only maternal overcontrol acted as an indirect effect explaining the prospective associations (H2)
between maternal and child anxiety and (H3)
between child
avoidant coping and child anxiety.