We've written a lot about avoidant attachment (see here and here for more on attachment), but here's a quick summary: Those who are high
in avoidance tend to be uncomfortable with intimacy, want less closeness in their relationships, and distrust others more.
Not exact matches
Insecure individuals, on the other hand,
tend to be unsettled
in their relationships, displaying anxiety (manifesting as possessiveness, jealousy, and clinginess) or
avoidance (manifesting as mistrust and a reluctance to depend on others).
Once a person has a better understanding of how many calories are actually
in that bag of chips that they can so easily inhale within minutes, how much of their daily caloric intake it consumes, and how little the chips do to satiate their hunger, portion control and
avoidance of foods with empty calories
tends to become easier.
We
tend to rely on allergy shots when
avoidance methods and medication are unsatisfactory
in minimizing pruritus.The company that performs the RAST test also supplies us with the allergens to give the allergy shots.
People high
in attachment
avoidance value emotional distance, are not comfortable depending on their partners, and
tend to cope with relationship distress by overly relying on themselves or withdrawing from the situation.
People high
in attachment
avoidance or anxiety
tend to doubt others» ability to meet their needs, which can reinforce maladaptive views of relationships and lead to unhappiness.
Research consistently shows that individuals who enact behaviors
in their relationships for
avoidance reasons
tend to actually weaken their relationships.1, 2 So although the husband is trying to prevent a future fight, he is probably actually hurting the long - term health of the relationship (and perhaps his long - term physical health if he keeps eating McDonald's!).
Results indicate that compared with EMDR and relaxation training, exposure therapy (a) produced significantly larger reductions
in avoidance and reexperiencing symptoms, (b)
tended to be faster at reducing
avoidance, and (c)
tended to yield a greater proportion of participants who no longer met criteria for PTSD after treatment.
Likewise, partners categorized as having a dismissive attachment orientation
tend to have lower levels of intimacy than their secure counterparts, because this attachment style is marked by
avoidance of intimacy
in the relationship (Pistole, 1989).
The central role of
avoidance in the development of regulatory strategies is stated also
in Borkovec» model (Borkovec et al., 2004), according to which worry is a regulatory strategy used by individuals that
tend to avoid intense emotions.
These youngsters often display hostile, angry, resentful, and aggressive thoughts (e.g., Schniering and Rapee 2004)-- which can be seen as a manifestation of cognitive fusion, and
tend to be avoidant about their own share
in negative events and problems occurring
in life (e.g., Powell et al. 1997)-- which can be regarded as a variant of experiential
avoidance.
The fact that anxiety and
avoidance are relatively highly interrelated does not imply considerable overlap between the anxiety and
avoidance dimension (Fraley et al., 2011), but is likely that women who fear intimacy
in a specific relationship also
tend to avoid closeness and dependency
in this relationship.