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In general, a child with an anxious-avoidant attachment style will avoid or ignore the...
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Ainsworth identified three attachment styles, or patterns, that a child may have with attachment figures: secure, anxious-avoidant (insecure) and...
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The baby's behavior on reunion following these separations forms the basis for classifying her quality of attachment. Ainsworth (1978) described three basic patterns of attachment: securely attached, avoidant, and resistant.
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Anxious Avoidant - Characterized by anxiety and fright within the child because he does not feel safe when he attempts a secure attachment with mom.
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These children are often called anxious-resistant. The third pattern of attachment that Ainsworth and her colleagues documented is called avoidant.
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Ainsworth originally proposed two: avoidant, and resistant (also called ambivalent; Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). This triarchic taxonomy of secure, avoidant, and resistant attachment was developed as a way of classifying infant behavior in the "strange situation."
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Sep 16, 2009 The third pattern is an anxious avoidant attachment, in which the individual has no confidence that when he or she seeks care,
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Sroufe, 2000b). Attachment relationships in literature using all four categories was found to be distributed as follows: 15% disorganized, 23% anxious-avoidant, 8% anxious-ambivalent, and 55% secure. Research and literature in this field uses the different labels depending on the date and scope of the studies.
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Attachment, Anxious-Avoidant Attachment, and Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment; (e.g., Main, Kaplan, & Cassidy, 1985). Hazan and Shaver (1987) applied the above-mentioned three patterns of attachment to the study of romantic relationships between adults, opening up a major paradigm of research focusing on adult attachment.
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