Sentences with phrase «less avoidant»

The results indicated infants with autonomous foster parents and infants placed at younger ages showed higher early and overall levels of secure behavior, less avoidant behavior, and more coherent attachment strategies compared to infants placed with nonautonomous foster parents.

But things get interesting when it comes to the link sexting and attachment avoidance: People high in avoidance, and especially men who are high in avoidance, send more sext messages and sexually explicit pictures and videos than those who are less avoidant.

Not exact matches

These children are also described as less disruptive, less aggressive, and more mature than children with ambivalent or avoidant attachment styles.

By saying that, I'm not trying to imply that all single people are avoidant, or even that we thought we would find a huge difference - just that we thought there might be a statistically significant difference because, as a whole, avoidant people are less likely to form lasting romantic relationships, which places a large portion of them in the category of single people.»

Anxiety often manifests itself in avoidant behavior and avoiding potentially dangerous situations would increase the likelihood of survival, particularly for those less capable of responding with a «fight or flight» reaction, she said.

Deactivating strategies are the mental processes by which Avoidant people convince themselves that relationships are not that important and their need for connection and closeness is less than others.

According to NDTV, Harms said that they found that for employees with a secure or avoidant attachment behavior, bosses mattered less.

Unresolved relationships are less studied and most look directly to the primary status of either insecure - anxious or avoidant to understand relationships with an unresolved.

The characteristics of maternal depression, insecure - avoidant attachment attitudes, and psychosocial risks are most probably associated with less adequate parenting and a poor parent - child relationship, 13,15 which may have led to insufficient support of the child's weight - reduction efforts.

Eating disorder patients were found to be less secure, more avoidant, and more anxious than controls.

Second, anxious - avoidant pairs were less effective providers and recipients of support during relationship conflict.

A more secure attachment style was generally associated with more nonverbal closeness and a more avoidant style was generally associated with less nonverbal closeness.

Fortunately, having a partner who is more securely attached (less anxious) appears to mitigate the negative effect of attachment avoidance on responsiveness.4 The fact that avoidant people responded the worst when their partner was high in attachment anxiety might be because anxious individuals» yearning for closeness and affirmation pushes away the avoidant partner, resulting in less effective capitalization.

Interestingly, this stress response pattern was mirrored by less constructive ways of soliciting and providing support during the conflict discussion: anxiously attached wives were less able to recognize their avoidant husbands» distress, whereas avoidant husbands found it difficult to constructively express their needs to their anxious wives.

Because of this difference, avoidant men and anxious women frequently pair up in relationships; it's far less common to find two avoidant people or two preoccupied people together.1 Avoidant men and anxious women are demonstrating stereotypical gender roles, with men acting more emotionally distant and women acting more clingy and deavoidant men and anxious women frequently pair up in relationships; it's far less common to find two avoidant people or two preoccupied people together.1 Avoidant men and anxious women are demonstrating stereotypical gender roles, with men acting more emotionally distant and women acting more clingy and deavoidant people or two preoccupied people together.1 Avoidant men and anxious women are demonstrating stereotypical gender roles, with men acting more emotionally distant and women acting more clingy and deAvoidant men and anxious women are demonstrating stereotypical gender roles, with men acting more emotionally distant and women acting more clingy and dependent.

Part of the issue with perceiving others as non-responsive could be a self - fulfilling prophecy: perhaps avoidant individuals share less personal information, making it hard for their partners to respond well, which leads avoidant people to see their partners as less responsive.

Pairs of avoidant men and anxious women are likely to stay intact for long periods of time, despite the fact that these insecure folks experience greater amounts of relationship dissatisfaction and conflict, and feel less trust in their partners.

Anxious individuals tend to strongly desire relationships and want to be especially close to their partners, while avoidant people generally desire less closeness, are less trusting and less reliant on their partners.

Partners who are more avoidant — preferring to steer clear of emotional closeness and intimacy — are more likely to use strategies like withdrawal (the least ideal strategy), manipulation, and mediated communication, and less likely to use open confrontation.

This makes sense because avoidant people usually feel less close to their partners and are sensitive about becoming too close to the partner for fear of getting hurt, so they wouldn't put much effort into communicating with their partner via text.

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.

However, avoidant individuals, who tend to report less desire to be close with their partners, were more likely to say that dumping someone via technology was acceptable.

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.

In a study co-authored by pioneering attachment researchers Mario Mikulincer and Phil Shaver, they found that in small - group settings (e.g., the workplace environment), avoidant attachment was associated with a «self - reliant» leadership style (a reluctance to rely on others for help / support and desire for less collaborative, more independent work).

Reluctance to disclose inner thoughts and feelings, remaining guarded, and having desire for personal control are all signs of avoidant attachment.1, 2 Research shows that in adolescence and young adulthood, avoidant individuals do not connect as deeply (they have less intimacy and emotional closeness) with friends and romantic partners as secure individuals do, and this lack of connection largely results from less self - disclosure.

Certain people, namely those with an avoidant attachment personality (i.e., fear closeness), are more likely to use the avoidant breakup strategies.2 Second, a person might feel less compassionate love (i.e., care and empathy) towards her or his soon to be ex - partner.3 Finally, there might be some situational factors that shape a person's choice to ghost a partner.

Another study showed that in military units, soldiers reported less confidence in their commanding officers to lead their groups and also reported less group cohesion when their officers were more avoidant.

Moreover, people with avoidant partners were also less likely to make their relationships visible.

Contrary to meta - analytic findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study found that a number of features of child care (the amount of child care, age of entry into care, and the quality and stability of child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother attachments or to an increased likelihood of avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the children who received less sensitive maternal care, extended experience with child care, lower - quality child care, and more changes in child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of developing an insecure attachment with their mothers.

The downside of course is that the more avoidant one partner is, the less emotional closeness the other partner feels, and so the merry - go - round of criticism and avoidance continues.

This is a serious gap in our knowledge for two reasons: (1) Recent research has shown that disorganized attachment is a predictor of psychopathology, whereas insecure - avoidant and resistant attachment lead to less optimal but not pathological child adjustment.10 Therefore, it is imperative to evaluate attachment - based interventions on their potential value to prevent attachment disorganization.

However, women who do not express great concern for their children or are not as responsive to their needs (characteristic of the avoidant and ambivalent styles), will have less capabilities or desire to care and protect their children in times of stress and emergency.

Research shows those who display avoidant behavior may tend to be more independent, less accommodating, and less forgiving.

A person with commitment issues may display maladaptive behaviors within romantic relationships, and those who display avoidant tendencies may be less happy, have less satisfying relationships, and be more prone to illness than other individuals.

Those with insecure - avoidant characteristics may prefer ambiguity in romantic relationships in the belief that an ambiguous relationship will hurt less when it ends.

The stability of a man's childhood bonds with his primary caregivers during childhood also plays a huge role: Partners with avoidant attachment styles are quicker to withdraw in response to conflicts, Campbell says, and may cheat to feel less dependent on their girlfriend or spouse to meet their needs.

«Kids who grow up with anxious or avoidant attachments are less likely to have healthy relationships.»

Those with anxious - ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles in relationships feel less secure with their partners.

In cases of primary structural dissociation, the ANP can be attached to the perpetrating or neglectful caretaker (s), while being more or less dissociated from, and otherwise avoidant of the EP that represents the defensive system and that encompasses traumatic memories of abuse and neglect.

So what we know from research is that the more avoidant folks who compartmentalize sex actually enjoy sex less because if you think about it it's kind of one dimensional and their partners usually find it aversive after while if they want a relationship.

More specifically, those who were currently in a relationship were less anxious and avoidant than participants who were not currently dating, even if they had been in a relationship in the past at both time points (p <.02), but again not in terms of change in attachment (p >.90).

Just as important was evidence that infants with extensive day care experience (a) were not less stressed in the SSP than other infants (see also19) and that (b) putatively independent behavior was not misconstrued as avoidant behavior.14

The research cited by van IJzendoorn provides support for a causal role of parental sensitivity in the development of attachment security, though much less research has addressed the interactive patterns that precede avoidant and resistant attachment.

Considered especially important was (a) taking into account confounding child, parent and family background factors that could be responsible for any putative child care effects; (a) distinguishing and disentangling potential effects of distinctive features of the child - care experience, particularly quality, quantity and type of care (e.g., center - based vs. home - based); and (b) determining whether day care was associated with less separation distress in the SSP or independent behavior was mischaracterized as avoidant behavior.

At the same time, a person with a severe disorder can be less so; more internally focused or avoidant.

The older singles, i.e., 46 to 60 years, showed a more avoidant attachment style (H2), felt less comfortable with closeness, and had less faith in others compared to the coupled individuals.

The impact of specific life events, such as parental divorce, on attachment orientations in adulthood are important to consider as those who experience this tend to be less securely attached, report greater relationship problems and are more likely to have an avoidant - fearful attachment style [60].

Fearful - avoidant participants were less likely to be in a romantic relationship, and those that were tended to report experiencing dissatisfaction in their relationships.

Others may have less intense avoidant tendencies, and actually desire to be in a relationship, but their brains keep reacting in ways that sabotage their attempts at intimacy.