Romantic Attachment Styles
Romantic Attachment Styles: 1
Romantic Attachment Styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, Ambivalent
Brittany Hail
Argosy University
Romantic Attachment Styles: 2
Humans have a general need to belong and a fundamental desire to form strong and stable relationships. As we develop, it is necessary for us to experience various levels of positive attachments and establish a variety of types of bonds. Beginning very early on, we are exposed to the very important relationship between the caregiver(s) and the child, which serves the purpose of cultivating security and ensuring survival (Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini, 2007, chp 8). These initial relationships should nurture and comfort us, to ensure that we develop trust and a secure attachment style. Throughout our life, it is necessary that we develop a few secure and emotionally powerful close friendships and romantic relationships. “A significant person factor that seems to impact [our friendships and] romantic relationships is the attachment style. Empirical research supports the notion that the way people relate to others in a romantic sense depends on the early socialization experiences, particularly attachment to their mothers. These attachment styles are outlined as secure, avoidant, and anxious/ambivalent. [A] secure attachment style [means that a person] finds it relatively easy to get close to others and [is] comfortable depending on [others] and having [others] depend on [them]. [They] do not often worry about being abandoned or about someone getting close to [them]. [An] avoidant attachment style [means that a person is] somewhat uncomfortable being close to others. [They] find it difficult to trust [others] completely and difficult to allow [themselves] to depend on [others].
Romantic Attachment Styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious, Ambivalent
Brittany Hail
Argosy University
Romantic Attachment Styles: 2
Humans have a general need to belong and a fundamental desire to form strong and stable relationships. As we develop, it is necessary for us to experience various levels of positive attachments and establish a variety of types of bonds. Beginning very early on, we are exposed to the very important relationship between the caregiver(s) and the child, which serves the purpose of cultivating security and ensuring survival (Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini, 2007, chp 8). These initial relationships should nurture and comfort us, to ensure that we develop trust and a secure attachment style. Throughout our life, it is necessary that we develop a few secure and emotionally powerful close friendships and romantic relationships. “A significant person factor that seems to impact [our friendships and] romantic relationships is the attachment style. Empirical research supports the notion that the way people relate to others in a romantic sense depends on the early socialization experiences, particularly attachment to their mothers. These attachment styles are outlined as secure, avoidant, and anxious/ambivalent. [A] secure attachment style [means that a person] finds it relatively easy to get close to others and [is] comfortable depending on [others] and having [others] depend on [them]. [They] do not often worry about being abandoned or about someone getting close to [them]. [An] avoidant attachment style [means that a person is] somewhat uncomfortable being close to others. [They] find it difficult to trust [others] completely and difficult to allow [themselves] to depend on [others].
References: Argosy University. (2012). Social Psychology. Retrieved from http://myeclassonline.com Farley, R. Chris. (2010). A Brief Overview of Adult Attachment Theory and Research. University of Illinois. Retrieved from http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/attachment.htm Godbole, Medha. (2011). Avoidant Attachment Style. Retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/avoidant-attachment-style.html Kenrick, D. T., Neuberg, S. L., & Cialdini, R. B. (2007). Social psychology: Goals in interaction (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Retrieved from http://digitalbookshelf.argosy.edu/#/books/0558220088/pages/48405201