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Showing 1 to 20 of 226 for “"Avoidant"”.
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Alcohol Dependence and Avoidant Attachment – Implications for Therapy
… style and significantly higher in both avoidant and ambivalent attachment style than controls and suggested overlapping between the two dimensions, known as ‘fearful avoidant’ attachment. Clients scored significantly higher than controls in all five sub-categories of maladaptive schemas …
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Behavioral Inhibition and Avoidance: Identifying Vulnerabilities to Avoidant Behavior
… tasks, whether or not BIS/BAS influenced avoidant behavior above and beyond other avoidance vulnerabilities (anxiety sensitivity and emotion dysregulation). Participants (N=297) completed a packet of questionnaires, a series of behavioral approach tasks, and then were asked to report …
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Avoidant Attachment and Automatic vs. Controlled Components of Psychological Defense
The mental defenses of avoidantly attached adults are thought to have both automatic and controlled components. The goals of the present study are to examine the effectiveness and interplay of the automatic and controlled components of avoidant defenses (experiment 1), and to examine the role of …
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Examining how avoidant coping and anger suppression relate to emotional eating in young women
… by examining how two passive coping styles, avoidant coping and anger suppression, relate to how young women eat in response to negative affect. The influence of these two styles of coping on emotional eating was examined in two studies. The first study used an experimental paradigm and the …
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The Ick Factor: Explaining the Term Through Lenses of Sexual Disgust and Avoidant Attachment Style
… disgust sensitivity than those who did not. Avoidant attachment style was not associated with attractivess, dateability, or noticing icks. Although the overall findings suggest that icks may not directly influence romantic evaluations in controlled settings, further research is warranted to …
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A Descriptive Study of the Similitude That Exists Between Shyness, Generalized Social Phobia, and Avoidant Personality Disorder
… similarities of generalized social phobia (GSP), avoidant personality disorder (APD), and shyness. Past research on GSP and APD, conducted by Herbert, J.D., Hope, D.A., and Bellack, A.S. (1992; Holt, C.S., Heimberg, R.G., and Hope, D.A. (1992); and Turner, S.M., Beidel, D.C., and Townsley, R.M. …
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The Role of Loneliness and Life Events: Comparing Avoidant and Borderline Personality Features and Their Relation to Depression
… disorders, such as borderline: BDL) and avoidant: AVD), are hyper-responsive to rejection. Loneliness has also been established as a vulnerability to the onset of depressive episodes and as an outcome to rejection sensitivity, however the relationship between personality pathology and …
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Balanced, Avoidant or Preoccupied? : Attachment strategies of adults who attended independent boarding schools compared with those who attended independent day schools
The aim of this research was to assess the attachment styles of two groups of people from the same socio-economic categories 1 and 11 as defined by the Standard Occupational Classification system produced by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1991. These two categories reflect …
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Understanding ARFID: clinical characteristics of patients who meet avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder criteria in a multidisciplinary pediatric growth and nutrition clinic
… (DSM)-V included a new diagnosis called Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), created in order to address the weaknesses of the DSM-IV-text revision (TR) classification system by better capturing the range of feeding difficulties typically found in clinical practice. Little …
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An examination of midwest community college presidents' leadership styles
… were transformational, transactional and passive avoidant. Three research questions were posed for the study. A total of 176 presidents in five states were sent surveys. Of this number, 82 (46.6%) completed and returned the MLQ questionnaire and the investigator-developed demographic survey. …
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Attachment theory and therapeutic relationships
… alliance. It was hypothesised that anxious and avoidant attachment would be correlated with negative childhood experiences and that both attachment anxiety and avoidance would be inversely correlated with the therapeutic alliance. The third hypothesis stated that negative childhood recollections …
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Coping and quality of life of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis
… on either dimension of coping (approach or avoidant) or on either measure of quality of life. In addition, neither dimension of coping moderated QOL. However, higher use of avoidant coping predicted lower QOL. In addition, QOL was comparable to healthy samples.</p> <p>These findings suggest …
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The influence of adult attachment styles on coping with bereavement
… greater endorsement of Secure and Dismissingly Avoidant attachment styles would be associated with less Subjective Distress. Results partially supported these hypotheses. Hyp. 3-6 predicted that the relationship between a Substitute Attachment Figure and adult attachment style would be …
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Attachment style, affect and construal of interpersonal conflict
… girlfriend. Results indicated that those with an Avoidant attachment style tended to be more angry in general temperament than Secure participants, and that their anger was involved with the explanations adopted to account for negative girlfriend behavior. Participants with Anxious attachment …
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Multi-level Model of Parent-Child Attachment, Depression & Self-Concept in Pediatric Chronic Illness
… Level 2, higher baseline maternal and paternal avoidant attachment predicted higher initial self-concept. Higher maternal avoidant attachment was also associated with a stronger relationship between self-concept and depression. Discussion: Given that avoidant attachment predicted affective …
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Emotion Dysregulation as a Mediator Between Insecure Attachment and Psychological Aggression in Couples
… levels of insecure attachment, both anxious and avoidant, are associated with their abilities to regulate emotions in a relational context. This study is the first to test emotion dysregulation as a mediator for the relationships between levels of insecure attachment and psychological aggression …
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Exploring the effects of coping behaviors on adjustment during a semester for lesbian, gay and bisexual college students
… predictor for both planning coping and avoidant coping. At high levels, it served to predict greater use of planning coping at the end of the semester. Self-esteem was found to be predictive of avoidant coping. High self-esteem predicted less use of avoidant coping across the semester. …
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The experience of dental avoidance
… participants or co-researchers, two are still in avoidant patterns. These two people differed from the others in that they both received their childhood dental care early in this century. At that time dentistry was primitive compared to present standards; little was understood about the role of …
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The Role of Attachment in the Use of Positive Emotion Regulation After Stress
… stress, individuals lower on the anxious and avoidant attachment dimensions are typically successful emotion regulators, while individuals higher on the anxious or avoidance dimensions are normally poor at emotion regulation. The current study aims to test differences in the ability to use …
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