Question

Summarize the key characteristics of the secure, avoidant, and ambivalent styles.

Answer 1

In the secure attachment style, one has a positive view of the self and the relationships with others. These individuals can become genuinely upset when their parents leave for example, and then become Happy when they come back or return that causes them to be satisfied in the relationship. In the avoidant attachment style, people tend to place an emotional distance between the partners. They avoid love and close relationships. The ambivalent attachment style is characterised by having mixed feelings about a certain thing.