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].
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.