In one study, researchers found that women with a secure attachment style had more positive feelings about their adult romantic relationships than other
women with insecure attachment styles.
In general, securely attached individuals demonstrated more PML and less SML than
participants with insecure attachment styles, and individuals with a fearful attachment style displayed more SML than other attachment styles.
Nonetheless, instability in attachment styles has also been found (Weinfeld, Sroufe, & Egeland, 2000; Zhang & Labouvie - Vief, 2004), where it may be noted that the lack of stability was mainly found for
respondents with insecure attachment styles and unstable family environments with emotionally distant relationships (Bowlby, 1980; Vaughn, Egeland, Sroufe, & Waters, 1979).
A person with a secure attachment is generally able to respond to stress in healthy ways and establish more meaningful and close relationships more often; a
person with an insecure attachment style may be more susceptible to stress and less healthy relationships.
People
with an insecure attachment style are much more likely to feel jealous in their relationships.1, 2,3 Anxious and avoidant people consistently score higher on measures of jealousy than their secure peers; insecure people tend to see threats that aren't there and become upset over trivial or insignificant things, whereas secure individuals have higher levels of trust and feel more at ease in emotionally vulnerable situations.
Similarly, when a person
with an insecure attachment style is upset, they are living in the SNS and are reacting to reach safety.
A person with a secure attachment is generally able to respond to stress in healthy ways and establish more meaningful and close relationships more often; a person
with an insecure attachment style may be more susceptible to stress and less healthy relationships.
Those with secure attachment styles did not participate in the HNP / PDR at the same rate as
those with insecure attachment styles, as they do not have the same levels of trauma from childhood that affect their lives today.
Those with insecure attachment styles must reconsider and reconceptualize their current expectations and biases in close relationships that are ingrained after years of existing in insecure attachment patterns.