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.
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.
The scientific story has developed from
attachment as care - giving and protective (or the opposite: deprivation, inadequacy, or insecure), to
how attachment may influence an individual's sense of themselves, their part in relationships, and their capacity to problem - solve and look after themselves —
attachment styles, described as «inner working models» in the psychoanalytic literature which may persist into adult life (as secure, anxious,
avoidant, or disorganised).
One of the questions that many of you ask is «
how to get close to a dismissive /
avoidant attachment style?»
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.
Given the large body of evidence linking
attachment insecurity to psychological distress (e.g., depression) in the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood and across the lifespan, there is a need to better understand
how attachment dimensions (e.g., anxious,
avoidant) influence depressive symptoms during this developmental period.
Avoidant attachment is only one dimension in
how people connect to others.
This book gives great insight to anxious -
avoidant relationships and in understanding
how the brain is wired to respond a certain way and
how with practice you can essentially learn to identify and stop your Brain's
attachment autopilot before it becomes a problem.
LAWRENCE — A new investigation appearing this week in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests a strong association between a person's
attachment style —
how avoidant or anxious people are in their close relationships — and their perception and management of social networks like Fa