The average of the 18 anxiety items and the average of the 18 avoidance items give two independent scores for
each type of attachment insecurity.
Not exact matches
There's motivations
of fear,
insecurity,
attachment to structures for feelings
of safety and belonging, etc, etc, that drive those
types of decisions.
Attachment insecurity, but not the
type of insecurity, seems a decisive factor in attention and memory processes.
It utilised an interview measure
of adult
attachment which allowed for an assessment
of both
type of attachment style and the degree
of insecurity of attachment.
Egeland and Sroufe1 pointed out the dramatically negative impact
of neglecting or abusive maternal behavior for
attachment and personality development, for which they accumulated unique prospective evidence in later phases
of the Minnesota study.2 What do we know about the association between child maltreatment and
attachment, what are the mechanisms linking maltreatment with
attachment insecurity and disorganization, and what
type of attachment - based interventions might be most effective?
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.