Sentences with phrase «experienced avoidant attachments»

Children who experienced avoidant attachments with their primary caregiver can go on to develop dismissive attachment styles in adulthood.

Not exact matches

When, in the beginning of their article, the authors spell out their expectations for how their results might turn out, they come up with three possible hypotheses: (1) single people are more avoidant in their attachment styles than coupled people are; (2) single people are more anxious in their attachments than coupled people are, maybe because «they have been rejected by relationship partners who would not accept their anxiety, clinginess, and intrusiveness;» and (3) single and coupled people are similar in their attachment experiences.

Avoidant Attachment Style — similarly to anxiously attached adults, avoidantly attached adults may have experienced a lack of attention to their emotional needs as children and now struggle to allow themselves to be vulnerable with others.

The role of oxytocin (OT) and early experience in shaping an avoidant attachment in females is also discussed.

This pattern of absent or cruel caregivers is associated with the avoidant attachment style: 1,2 The lack of love and support that Don experienced as a child likely taught him that he can't really depend on anyone but himself.

Individual Factors: Attachment styles (fearful, avoidant, anxious, and secure), destiny and growth beliefs, and the Big Five personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism).

Nickola Overall and colleagues have investigated how avoidant attachment affects how people identify and perceive negative emotions that their partners are experiencing.1 The researchers compared how accurately avoidant participants, as compared to anxious or secure individuals, could identify anger, sadness, or hurt in their partners.

Insecure, ambivalent, avoidant, or disorganized early attachment experiences are real events, which — according to attachment theory — can substantially and destructively shape a client's emotional and relational development.

«People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right - hemisphere processes,» says Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to their collective bosom.

Contrary to meta - analytic findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study found that a number of features of child care (the amount of child care, age of entry into care, and the quality and stability of child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother attachments or to an increased likelihood of avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the children who received less sensitive maternal care, extended experience with child care, lower - quality child care, and more changes in child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of developing an insecure attachment with their mothers.

Perhaps four of these maxims, or conditions for therapeutic change, upon which probably most attachment - oriented therapists would agree are: (1) Insecure, ambivalent, avoidant, or disorganized early attachment experiences are real events which can substantially and destructively shape a client's emotional and relational development (the client's adult problems don't originate in childhood - based fantasies).

A child «s score on the RADQ can be used to estimate the severity of his / her attachment disorder, and may indicate whether the child experiences an anxious, avoidant, or ambivalent type of attachment disorder.

Babies with a «slow to warm up» temperament (those who took a while to get used to new experiences) are likely to have insecure - avoidant attachments.

The Experiences in Close Relationships Scale — Short Version (ECR - S)[68] measures avoidant and anxious attachment styles.

Avoidant / ambivalent attachment style as a mediator between abusive childhood experiences and adult relationship difficulties.

The impact of specific life events, such as parental divorce, on attachment orientations in adulthood are important to consider as those who experience this tend to be less securely attached, report greater relationship problems and are more likely to have an avoidant - fearful attachment style [60].

[jounal] Rholes, W. S. / 2006 / Avoidant attachment and the experience of parenting / Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 32 (3): 275 ~ 285