Being able to share the real you — the good, the bad and everything in between — is vital for a
sense of emotional security in a marriage.
When these messages are mutually shared,
feelings of emotional security blanket the relationship, and the potential for a strong emotional connection exists.
An apartment, town house or condominium is also a
source of emotional security and financial stability once you've filled its rooms with your personal possessions.
While this example is extreme, erratic and inconsistent behavior (even subtle forms of inconsistency) can weaken and ultimately destroy the
foundation of emotional security.
Results are interpreted in the context of how they advance transactional formulation
of emotional security theory and its resulting translational implications for clinical initiatives.
Early studies assumed that since secure children feel an inner sense
of emotional security in their relationship with their parents, they do not activate an attachment system and therefore are able to maintain an active mentalization system (Fonagy, 2006; Fonagy and Target, 2008).
In my own four decades of observation of families who have slept in a wide variety of ways, I started out convinced that one particular sleep choice would give children the strongest boost in the
area of emotional security and sound judgment.
Belonging and Emotional Security Tool (BEST)(PDF - 151 KB) The Annie E. Casey Foundation & Casey Family Services (2008) Includes a tool that social workers can use to explore youths» sense
of emotional security with their foster parents and foster parents» sense of claiming and attachment with youth in their care, which can help advance meaningful permanency conversations.
This increased communications availability improves doctor - patient relationships, and ensures some level
of emotional security knowing your healthcare professional is always available via MyChart.
In conclusion, friendship attachments are important during adolescence because they are
sources of emotional security and support, contexts for growth in social competence, and prototypes for later relationships (Seiffge - Krenke, 1993).
You see this
level of emotional security in people who comfortably (non-anxiously) reach out and say to their spouses / partners or friends, «Something happened that is troubling me and I need to talk... Are you available?»
An attachment figure in these measures is defined by an affirmative response to the question «Is your overall sense
of emotional security, comfort, and well - being affected by your feelings about your relationship with your partner?»
Specifically to be an attachment figure, as defined in IPARTheory, one's sense
of emotional security, happiness, and well - being must be dependent to some degree on the quality of the relationship with the other person.
In conclusion, friendship attachments are important during adolescence because they are sources
of emotional security and support, contexts for growth in social competence, and prototypes for later relationships (Seiffge - Krenke, 1993).
Understanding one another fosters a deeper sense
of emotional security, a secure foundation which research shows is at the center of a loving relationship.
One of the important points she makes is that the conditions needed for couples to experience a sense
of emotional security can inadvertently rob the relationship of a sense of adventure and excitement.
Adolescents» exposure to fathers» constructive conflict behaviors also enhanced their sense
of emotional security.
Sample items include: «To what extent did another person (s) come to your assistance,» and «To what extent did another person (s) provide you with a sense
of emotional security and well - being.»
Additionally, when conflict emerges, we experience a visceral confidence, a feeling
of emotional security that allows people to come together and dialogue, including respectful, honest disagreement that is saturated with acceptance and kindness.