"Emotional insecurity" refers to a feeling of uncertainty, fear, or unease about oneself and one's emotions. It can make someone feel doubtful about their worth or abilities and can affect their relationships and overall well-being.
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Most people have some level
of emotional insecurity and may be more or less insecure depending on the external circumstances or mood.
Evidence was thus advanced for
emotional insecurity as an explanatory process in the context of parental depressive symptoms.
@turquoise — I knew a counselor who told me that we can overcome
emotional insecurity by pretending that we are secure.
The showing of love is conditioned on how good the children make the parents feel, and this inconsistency or unpredictability tends to
create emotional insecurity and co-dependence.
-- Having a competitive attitude: «A person
with emotional insecurities may overcompensate by trying to look superior to his or her spouse.
If you are divorced and continue to fight with your ex, you are putting your child at greater risk
for emotional insecurity, according to the American Psychological Association.
Players who can not make their peace with the idea of weapons breaking will be in a perpetual hell of
emotional insecurity punctuated with the endless cursing that happens when yet another of your weapons breaks.
Although emotional insecurity was not identified as a proximal predictor of interparental difficulties, an indirect cascade was identified whereby insecurity in early adolescence was associated with increases in teen psychological problems, which in turn predicted greater interparental dysphoria over time.
While emotional insecurity can stem from a number of problems, including early childhood issues or negative relationship experiences, understanding its detrimental impact on your relationship can help you relax and find your way back to a secure and happy relationship.
Whereas short and long - term former relationships had a predictive power for
less emotional insecurity, less conflict tolerance and more dysfunctional conflict styles in the current partnership, there was no effect of earlier relationship experiences on partnership satisfaction and future orientation.
Child Emotional Insecurity and Academic Achievement: The Role of Sleep Disruptions Pages 29 — 38 El - Sheikh, Mona; Buckhalt, Joseph A.; Keller, Peggy S.; Cummings, E. Mark; Acebo, Christine
But this happened on the heels of my first year of graduate school, a year that plunged me into spiritual confusion and
emotional insecurity, and it felt like the last of my spiritual integrity depended on the answer to that question.
Marital Conflict in Early Childhood and Adolescent Disordered Eating:
Emotional Insecurity and the Marital Relationship as an Explanatory Mechanism.
Trying to avoid physical discomfort, control disease processes, and / or appease dominating fears of physical or
emotional insecurities, without real substance and contemplating the drive that fuels them, could actually perpetuate the very cycle one is trying to break.
Amidst this career and life crisis enters the actress's niece, played by Sophia Takal (V / H / S), who arrives for a weekend stay and ushers in a complex prism of
emotional insecurities.
identified children's
emotional insecurity as a mediator of associations between their exposure to
emotional insecurity was not identified as a proximal predictor of interparental difficulties, an
interparental conflict,
emotional insecurity, and child psychological adjustment across multiple
emotional insecurity, particularly relative to the mediational role of emotional insecurity in
interparental dysphoria,
emotional insecurity was a negligible predictor of both interparental
Wave 3
emotional insecurity was a significantly stronger predictor of Wave
other three cross-lagged associations between interparental hostility and emotional insecurity
This study examined the transactional interplay among dimensions of destructive interparental conflict (i.e., hostility and dysphoria), children's
emotional insecurity, and their psychological problems from middle childhood and adolescence.
emotional insecurity, and their psychological difficulties across five measurement occasions that
emotional insecurity were not directly associated with changes in interparental conflict, it was
moderator tests of age in models of
emotional insecurity are rare, confidence in our results are
associations between interparental conflict (i.e., dysphoria, hostility) and emotional insecurity
variables in the model (i.e., the interparental conflict dimension,
emotional insecurity, and child
Children reported on
their emotional insecurity in the interparental relationship in
Results indicated that
emotional insecurity was a particularly powerful mediator of prospective associations between interparental conflict (i.e., dysphoria and hostility) and child adjustment during adolescence rather than childhood.