Adults and Attachment Styles

Question 1

Characteristics of Secure Adult

Answer 1

• comfortable sharing feelings with friends and parents
• higher self-esteem
• seek out social support
• higher sociability
• no fear, comfortable with intimacy and autonomy

Question 2

Characteristics of Avoidant Adult

Answer 2

• may have problems with intimacy
• invest little emotion in social and romantic relationships
• unable/unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others
• lower sociability, strongly independent

Question 3

Characteristics of Ambivalent/Resistant Attachment

Answer 3

• reluctant to become close to others
• worry that their partner does not love them
• become very distraught when a relationship ends
• fear of autonomy, separations