Not exact matches
Your understanding
of it will help you to become a better support
figure to your wife and to understand how your wife
feels after a challenging day with a child with reactive
attachment disorder.
An
attachment figure in these measures is defined by an affirmative response to the question «Is your overall sense
of emotional security, comfort, and well - being affected by your
feelings about your relationship with your partner?»
Secure infants differ from insecure infants in that they experience
felt security; they have faith that the
attachment figure can be relied upon in times
of stress and hardship.
Attachment can be defined as an emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and feels more secure when in the presence of the attachme
Attachment can be defined as an emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and
feels more secure when in the presence
of the
attachmentattachment figure.
Item content
of the instrument was suggested by
attachment theory's formulations concerning the nature
of feelings toward
attachment figures.
Although it makes sense that an
attachment figure provides a «pervasive
feeling of security,» how
attachment - induced safety manifests behaviorally or neurally is not well understood.
The scale refers to the four main functions
of attachment relationships: The use
of the
attachment figure as a target for proximity seeking, the
feeling of separation distress while being separated, the use
of the
attachment figure as a safe haven in times
of distress, and as a secure base from which to explore the world (Ainsworth, 1991; Hazan & Zeifman, 1994).