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Essay Question - Attachment Theory (Types of Adult Attachments (Secure…
Essay Question - Attachment Theory
The Continuity of Attachment Styles in Adulthood
• Secure Attachments - linked to self-esteem and quality relationships in adulthood.
• Insecure Attachments - linked to a poor quality of adult relationships.
• The attachment styles we have as children persist into adulthood.
Types of Adult Attachments
Insecure Anxious – Ambivalent (19%)
• Low self-esteem, obsession, jealousy.
• Fall in love easily but do not trust others to commit and do not believe in lasting love.
• Low levels of autonomy and need for extreme forms of closeness.
Insecure Dis-organised
• A mixture of avoidant and disorganised patterns.
• More pervasive difficulties then other styles.
Insecure Avoidant (24%)
• Mothers were cold and rejecting.
• Did not believe in lasting love.
• High levels of autonomy and very low levels of closeness fear of intimacy.
Secure (56%)
• Belief in romantic, lasting love.
• High self-esteem, trusting.
• Warm childhood relationships with parents.
• A balance of closeness and autonomy.
Comparing Childhood and Adult Attachments
Similarities
• Temporal Linkage: attachment to parents end as a new adult relationship begins.
• Persistence.
• Separation Protest.
• First Choice in Threatening Situations.
Differences
• The person’s relationship to the attachment figure.
• The nature of the triggering threat.
• Choice of the attachment figure.