What a securely attached
child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not
vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available
emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect
Schools use the PDG in a number of different ways, including nurture groups for
children who may be socially and
emotionally vulnerable, out - of - hours school learning, on - site multi-agency support and better tracking of pupils as they progress through school.
In line with the transactional model's prediction, a three - way interaction between these factors was found for internalizing and total problem behaviors, suggesting that
children, who are more
emotionally reactive, experience little maternal responsiveness, are more
vulnerable to experience distress, and have learned to interpret mother's ambiguous behavior as unsupportive, are most at risk to display internalizing and total problem behaviors.