Sentences with phrase «romantic attachment anxiety»

Taken together, previous research suggests that romantic attachment anxiety is associated with multiple aspects of negative body image, but that romantic attachment avoidance is unrelated to negative body image.

Additionally, we expected romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance to be related to lower sexual functioning scores (e.g., Birnbaum, 2007)(Hypothesis 3 and 4, respectively).

Hypothesis 3 was not supported, since the sexual functioning domains were not predicted by romantic attachment anxiety.

Only romantic attachment anxiety was found to be associated with concerns and dissatisfaction about body shape in a samples of female college students (Hardit & Hannum, 2012; Koskina & Giovazolias, 2010).

Consistent with Hypothesis 2, romantic attachment anxiety predicted lower body appreciation in the model.

Hypothesis 5 was supported, since romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance were associated in the model.

Lastly, the association between romantic attachment anxiety and romantic attachment avoidance was relatively high in our sample, whereas these dimensions were found to be only weakly related in other studies (e.g., Davis et al., 2006).

The relationship between adult romantic attachment anxiety, the experience of negative life events, and compliance

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They found that people high in the psychological attribute called attachment anxiety (a tendency to worry about the proximity and availability of a romantic partner) responded to memories of a relationship breakup with an increased preference for warm - temperature foods over cooler ones: soup over crackers.

How you behave within close relationships, develop and maintain emotional bonds with romantic partners, and support your partner in stressful situations is determined by your attachment style — your own unique levels of avoidance and anxiety.

How needing you changes me: The influence of attachment anxiety on self - concept malleability in romantic relationships.

This 36 - item self - report measure of AAS yields continuous scores on attachment anxiety (18 items, e.g. «I often worry that my partner will not want to stay with me»; from 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree) and attachment avoidance (18 items, e.g. «I find it difficult to allow myself to depend on romantic partners») dimensions.

[jounal] Nickola, C. / 2013 / Attachment Anxiety and Reations to Relationship Threat: The Benefits and Costs of Inducing Guilt in Romantic Partners / Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 106 (2): 235 ~ 256

Coughlin also points out that victims of verbal abuse in childhood often experience attachment anxiety in their romantic relationships.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among adult attachment according to two dimensions (attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance), breakup distress and growth following dissolutions of romantic relationship.

The Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR - R; Fraley et al. 2000) is a self - report measure with 36 items measuring adult romantic attachment across two subscales: attachment - related anxiety (fear of abandonment and rejection) and attachment - related avoidance (fear of closeness and discomfort with dependence on others).

The present study examines the pattern of relationships between adult romantic attachment, cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety and depression, self - reported anxious and depressive symptoms, and both general and specific relationship outcomes.

Higher perceived maternal intrusiveness, lower connectedness with father and higher fear of disappointing both parents were related to higher attachment anxiety in romantic relationships.

Younger Turkish emerging adults reported more attachment anxiety in their romantic relationships than older emerging adults, and the females reported more attachment avoidance in their romantic relationships than males.

In the classic transference paradigm, manipulated resemblance to a prior romantic partner led individuals to apply their attachment style with a past romantic partner (the prior significant other) to a potential dating partner, as reflected in self - reported anxiety and avoidance (Brumbaugh and Fraley, 2006).

Perceptions of conflict and support in romantic relationships: The role of attachment anxiety.

For romantic attachment relationships a meta - analysis showed higher anxiety and lower avoidance in females than in males (Del Giudice, 2011).

Perceptions of conflict and support in romantic relationships: the role of attachment anxiety.

In the same study, the two underlying continuous dimensions of romantic attachment (i.e., anxiety and avoidance) were assessed.

We tested a model specifying the relations between romantic attachment avoidance and anxiety, body appreciation, and sexual functioning in young adult females and found a good fit, demonstrating the importance of romantic attachment for both constructs.

The questionnaires measured body appreciation, attachment anxiety and avoidance in romantic relationships, and sexual functioning.

First, results revealed that body appreciation was associated with attachment related anxiety in relation to a romantic partner, with lower levels of attachment anxiety relating to greater levels of body appreciation.

One study that used a four - category model of adult attachment (i.e., secure, preoccupied, fearful, and dismissing)(Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) found that a secure romantic attachment style in adulthood was positively related to a favorable body image, whereas a preoccupied romantic attachment style - characterized by high attachment anxiety but low avoidance - was associated with more body dissatisfaction and dysphoria.