Not exact matches
Depression and
attachment insecurity of the primary caregiver and more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents,
high person - to - room ratio, early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents, low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.
Lower scores denote greater
attachment security and
higher scores greater
attachment insecurity.
Overall and McNulty point out that people
high in
attachment anxiety tend to rely on this communication style, because it assuages their
insecurities about the relationship, at least for a while.
Results of Study 2 suggest that retrospective reports of maternal
attachment insecurity are associated with significantly
higher LMS scores, anxious and depressive symptoms, adult romantic
attachment insecurity, and potentially
high - risk relationship behaviors.
Avoidant individuals, such as your ex-girlfriend, tend to weather loss better than other
attachment types (e.g., anxious individuals who want to be close but always question how much their partner really loves them), as they have a
higher threshold for
insecurity.
Individuals
high on overdependent
attachment suffer from
insecurity in their orientations toward others and in social situations.
Although at baseline toddlers with depressed mothers evidenced
higher rates of
insecurity than did toddlers with non-depressed mothers, at the completion of the intervention the group that received the
attachment - theory informed intervention had significantly
higher rates of security than did participants who received the community standard intervention.
Results suggest that
higher levels of
attachment insecurity were associated with increased psychological symptoms,
higher levels of cognitive vulnerabilities, and greater general and relationship impairments.