Sentences with phrase «how avoidant individuals»

Subsequent research has stressed how avoidant individuals differ to the extent to which they displayed anxious and avoidant qualities [19].

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

Depending upon the particulars of an individual's early relationship - experience, an internal working model of how people relate to one - another develops that shapes their future relationships — engaged, hopeful, pessimistic, avoidant, incoherent, etc..