Fear of emotions (ACS) was positively and strongly correlated
with emotional avoidance - NAS (0.67), rumination (0.63), hopelessness rumination (0.69), and Avoidant coping - COPE (0.54).
Not exact matches
Avoidance and
emotional distance become a way of dealing
with the world, and instead of problem - solving, they are more likely to sulk or withdraw.
In their book Marital Conflict and Children: An
Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University of Rochester identify the kinds of destructive tactics that parents use
with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like
avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.
From the abstract: Maternal reports of food
avoidance eating behaviours were associated
with an
emotional child temperament, high levels of maternal feeding control, using food for behaviour regulation, and low encouragement of a balanced and varied food intake.
Another long - term side effect of sexual assault is
avoidance, or the reducing and / or circumventing
emotional pain associated
with abuse - related experiences or recollections in order to cope.
Especially if you have no struggles
with any kind of eating disorder such as
emotional eating, binge eating, binge / purge, food addiction, exercise
avoidance, excuses, fears, self - sabotage or any other unhealthy behavior that is stopping you from losing weight and keeping it off forever.
People
with PTSD often experience
avoidance,
emotional reactivity, psychological rigidity and other debilitating effects.
Behavior problems such as chronic barking, litter box
avoidance, obsessive - compulsive behaviors, separation anxiety, and inter-animal conflicts usually have an
emotional component and are treatable
with energy essences.
... this entire discussion is not taking place reasonably - it's highly
emotional,
with a careful
avoidance of rational dissection.
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.
Implement
emotional and behavioral willingness techniques
with clients to reduce experiential
avoidance.
Emotional acceptance:
Emotional acceptance was measured
with the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - II, a 10 - item questionnaire using a 7 - point Likert scale (1 = never true, 7 = always true).28 The scale measures experiential
avoidance; items were reversed to obtain a measure of acceptance.
It is our belief that sexual compulsiveness is not in response to the need for sex but rather an
avoidance or coping mechanism for dealing
with emotional pain.
The belief that emotions are uncontrollable was associated
with higher use of rumination and
emotional avoidance and lower use of acceptance, reappraisal and problem solving.
Beliefs about emotions (BAEQ scores) were negatively correlated
with adaptive ERS (reappraisal, acceptance, and active problem solving), and positively correlated
with maladaptive ERS (suppression - ERQ, rumination - SRRS,
emotional avoidance - NAS and avoidant coping - COPE)(see Table 2 (a)-RRB-.
Consistently
with the literature (Aldao et al., 2010; Wells, 2008; Clark & Beck, 2009), the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations between negative beliefs about emotions and the adoption of maladaptive regulation strategies (i.e. rumination, suppression,
emotional avoidance, and avoidant coping).
The subscale scores can range from − 39 to +39,
with higher scores reflecting greater
emotional approach and greater
emotional avoidance.
Negative beliefs about the uncontrollability of depressed mood and anxiety were associated
with higher use of rumination and
emotional avoidance, and
with a limited access to ER strategies.
For example, relatively greater right prefrontal activity indexes negative
emotional states associated
with behavioral
avoidance [51], [52] and depression risk [53].
People high in attachment
avoidance value
emotional distance, are not comfortable depending on their partners, and tend to cope
with relationship distress by overly relying on themselves or withdrawing from the situation.
There are at least two strategies for dealing
with this attachment insecurity: (a) become preoccupied
with relational partners by being overly sensitive to partner's
emotional moves and developing a sustained expectation that partner's will eventually betray or abandon them (i.e., attachment anxiety), and / or (b) avoid developing relationships of any significant
emotional depth to avoid getting hurt in the first place, which often leads insecurely attached individuals to become emotionally aloof, overly fixated
with self - reliance, and emotionally unavailable to others in times of need (i.e., attachment
avoidance).
This study examined a cumulative model of risk / protective factors at the individual level (child's sense of coherence; attachment
with father) and family level as manifested by fathers»
emotional resources (fathers» negative / positive affect; attachment
avoidance / anxiety), to explain socioemotional adjustment among children age 8 — 12 years
with or without learning disabilities (LD).
When children are trained to master their
emotional intelligence for instance, it results in
avoidance of risky behavior, improved performance academically, strong friendships as they learn to be sensitive to others, reduction in behavior associated
with violence, minimal disruptive behavior, good health and success in life among others.
In their book Marital Conflict and Children: An
Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University of Rochester identify the kinds of destructive tactics that parents use
with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like
avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.
Having done so, and then continued
with private family systems coaching, I've experienced the anxiety and
avoidance, the
emotional impasses and seemingly immovable triangles, and the negative reactivity and pushback of working on self - differentiation in my own family of origin.
However, these previous results also report divergent findings, that range from attentional
avoidance (see Hodsoll et al., 2014, who found that boys aged 8 — 16
with clinical levels of conduct problems and high levels of CU showed reduced attentional capture by angry faces) to attentional orientation toward angry faces (see Ezpeleta et al., 2017b, who showed that children
with high but non-clinical levels of CU traits and ODD - related problems oriented their attention to angry faces to the same degree as children
with low CU traits and low ODD - related problems, during an
emotional version of the Go / No - Go task).
Coping through
emotional expression,
avoidance and de-pressive coping in daily life will lead to more cyberspecific depressive coping when confronted
with cyberbullying.
Couples Counseling works
with the couple - system and allows the couple to have a more objective view of their relationship, modify dysfunctional behavior, decrease
emotional avoidance, improve communication, and promote their strengths.
For instance, there is evidence of individual differences in expressing
avoidance or hypervigilance
with respect to attachment threats: fearful avoidant individuals are in fact characterized by cognitive
avoidance of all highly
emotional stimuli (Dewitte et al., 2007).
Finally, the hypothesis that those
with attachment - related
avoidance will experience
emotional distress because of increased interpersonal problems was not supported.
There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and
avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict
with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies,
emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people
with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).
Fear of depressed mood and anxiety was associated
with rumination and
emotional avoidance, whereas emotion suppression was mainly associated
with fear of anger and positive affect.
In addition, mothers» attachment insecurities to their own and their children's psychological functioning (both anxiety and
avoidance) at the time of diagnosis were associated
with their children's
emotional problems and children's poor self - image 7 years later.
This is in line
with findings from non-clinical populations (Raque - Bogdan et al. 2011) and suggests that one reason individuals
with higher levels of attachment - related
avoidance experience
emotional distress is through being unable to be compassionate towards the self.
Low self - compassion, attachment - related
avoidance (but not attachment - related anxiety) and high interpersonal problems were all associated
with higher levels of
emotional distress and anxiety.
Outside the relationship, depression is significantly associated
with higher rumination, problem - solving and
emotional expression in depressed women and
with higher
avoidance in depressed men (e.g. Bodenmann et al., 2004).
The authors also found that, using a global
emotional and motivational scaffolding scale, mothers demonstrated improved co-regulation (i.e. higher ratings of global motivational and
emotional scaffolding, higher frequency of more adaptive strategies such as redirection of attention) over the course of the intervention, and that this was also associated
with improvements in toddler emotion regulation (i.e. less expressed negativity and
avoidance).
It can be divided into four categories: cognitive and
emotional involvement (4 items; e.g., reading books, singing songs together);
avoidance of restriction and punishment (2 items, including parents being too harsh in disciplining and parents excessively controlling the child); social stimulation (3 items; e.g., visiting coeval friends» houses, going to the park
with the child); and social support for parenting (3 items; e.g., having someone to consult on child care, being supported in child care by someone).