Attachment Basics
This term refers to the emotional bond formed between a child and their primary caregiver.
Attachment
People with this attachment style generally feel comfortable with intimacy and independence.
Secure Attachment
This attachment style is marked by fear of abandonment and a strong need for reassurance.
Anxious attachment
This attachment style involves discomfort with emotional closeness and dependence.
Avoidant attachment
This attachment style avoids both fear of closeness and fear of abandonment.
Fearful-Avoidant Attachment
This attachment style develops when caregivers are consistently responsive and supportive.
Secure Attachment
This childhood experience most often contributes to secure attachment.
Consistent, responsive caregiving
Anxious attachment often develops from caregiving that is what?
Inconsistent, unpredictable, or overbearing.
Avoidant attachment often develops when caregivers are emotionally what?
Distant or emotionally unavailable
Fearful-Avoidant attachment often develops in environments that are unsafe and what?
Traumatic or chaotic
This theory was originally developed to explain how early relationships impact emotional development.
Attachment theory.
Adults with secure attachment typically respond to conflict in this way.
Open and healthy communication
People with anxious attachment may frequently engage in this behavior to maintain closeness.
Reassurance-seeking or clinging
People with avoidant attachment may respond to stress by doing this.
Withdrawing and shutting down emotionally
People with this attachment style want to experience _______ but fear ________.
Closeness, intimacy
This plays a key role in shaping attachment patterns more than the specific caregiver involved.
Consistency and predictable of caregiving
Secure attachment is associated with this emotional ability.
Effective emotional regulation
Anxious attachment is commonly associated with this emotional experience in relationships.
Heightened anxiety and emotional distress
Avoidant attachment is associated with high levels of this coping style
Emotional suppression
Fearful-avoidant attachment is most strongly associated with exposure to this during childhood.
Abuse, neglect, or unresolved trauma
Attachment styles are most strongly influence by how caregivers respond to a child's emotional needs during this stage of life.
Early childhood
People with secure attachment are more likely to do this during relational conflict.
- Take responsibility
- Set boundaries
-Seek resolution rather than avoidance or escalation
This cognitive pattern is common in anxious attachment during conflict.
Catastrophizing or assuming rejection
This belief commonly underlies avoidant attachment.
Adults with fearful-avoidant attachment may alternative between these two behaviors in relationships.
Avoidance and anxiety