Severity of autism was associated with
more attachment insecurity, and lower developmental level increased the chance for disorganized attachment.
I can not prove this, but as I've written before, I believe that there is
more attachment insecurity than there used to be due to an increase in family instability.
Not exact matches
Depression and
attachment insecurity of the primary caregiver and
more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents, high person - to - room ratio, early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents, low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.
Across both studies, the
insecurity prime resulted in participants expressing sexual fantasies containing
more themes of hostility and distancing (i.e., emotionless sex, a lack of romance and affection) relative to the security prime, and this occurred regardless of participant gender and
attachment style.
When people think about secure
attachment in this way they experience a variety of positive psychological changes, including less
insecurity, even after they leave the laboratory.6 ``... those repeatedly primed with
attachment security reported
more positive relationship expectations,
more positive self - views, and less
attachment anxiety.»
More importantly, our results demonstrate an interaction between dispositional
attachment insecurities and
attachment security that was temporarily activated to explore the link with emotion processing (Carnelley and Rowe, 2010).
The stages and steps of emotionally focused therapy are outlined below: Emotionally focused therapy can help people address
attachment - related
insecurities and learn how to interact with their romantic partners in
more loving, responsive, and emotionally connected ways, which can result in a
more secure
attachment.
Few studies have examined how
attachment insecurity (i.e.,
attachment anxiety,
attachment avoidance) is associated with the
more subtle and less severe forms of sexual coercion, such as verbal threats and partner manipulation.
We also compared the
attachment insecurity dimension scores for across the samples, the mean scores above show overall lower scores for the Hong Kong participants suggesting they are
more secure.
Although the secure vs. insecure
attachment distinction has some predictive validity, disorganized
attachment has far better documented links with specific types of psychopathology than do other types of
insecurity.4, 9 Still, much less is understood about the mechanisms through which disorganized
attachment affects the expression of psychopathology in the child, and whether it is a specific contributor or a
more general marker for psychopathology in general.
Beyond confirming that self - reported early risk exposure was associated with a
more sexualized romantic self - concept, greater numbers of relationships, and greater
attachment insecurity, «Study 1» confirmed a hypothesized four - way interaction between gender, early risk, romantic self - concept, and
attachment style.
Also, in a
more recent meta - analysis it was found that
attachment insecurity was significantly linked with externalizing behaviors in 69 studies (Fearon et al. 2010).
The results also showed that
more specific symptoms of anxiety (i.e., OCD and PTSD) correlated not only with emotion dysregulation and
attachment insecurity but also with emotion understanding.
The current study also illustrated that lower self - compassion and
more interpersonal problems were associated with greater levels of
attachment - related
insecurity in clinical patients, replicating findings from non-clinical samples (e.g. Haggerty et al. 2009; Raque - Bogdan et al. 2011).
Persons who displayed
more suspicious jealousy had greater
insecurity, greater anxious
attachment, greater avoidant
attachment, greater chronic jealousy, and lower self - esteem.
While it has been previously shown that
attachment insecurity is associated with poorer emotion regulation strategies [120],
more research is needed to better understand emotion regulation processes, behavioral strategies and its physiological correlates.