To determine the potential impact of being
highly avoidant or anxious on the attachment scale (ECR) on the dependent variables, we conducted separate analyses of variance (ANOVA) that factored in high and low scores on the anxious attachment and avoidant attachment dimension, respectively.
Highly avoidant individuals also reported using more hostile behaviors on days when they believed their partners to be experiencing highly negative emotions.
For people low in avoidant attachment (i.e., those with less of a need for emotional distance in relationships), their desire for sex was higher when their partners were more responsive, but for those who are
highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increased.
Effective ways to work with both the dependent client and
the highly avoidant client will be offered.
Not exact matches
For example, a strong
avoidant person with a
highly anxious one is a set up for conflict and misery.
If not, you'll be managing a
highly anxious pet afterwards which can also make it especially averse or
avoidant of the grooming activity.
This bias can be pretty harmful, especially in light of the researchers» finding that
avoidant people responded with more hostility and more defensiveness in response to
highly negative emotions from their partners.
- securely attached children tended to have sensitive mothers - anxious / ambivalent children tended to have unresponsive mothers - anxious /
avoidant children tended to have unresponsive and controlling mothers -
avoidant / ambivalent children tended to have
highly controlling mothers
Accessing and Deepening Emotions in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) When One or Both Partners are
Highly Cognitive or Emotionally
Avoidant
For instance, there is evidence of individual differences in expressing avoidance or hypervigilance with respect to attachment threats: fearful
avoidant individuals are in fact characterized by cognitive avoidance of all
highly emotional stimuli (Dewitte et al., 2007).
Escapist and
avoidant coping strategies such as distraction have been shown to reduce anxiety, fear and pain in situations such as medical procedures (Lee et al., 2012) or exposure to feared stimuli (Johnstone and Page, 2004) and could therefore be considered
highly adaptive for dealing with these particular situations.