My attachment styles.
Attachment theory is a psychodynamics theory postulating that the way in which an infant’s form attachment early in life with their parents affect their later relationship in life with other people especially our romantic relationship (Seccombe, 2015). This theory as put forward by Bowlby in late 1950 span through many facets of our life and disciplines such as development psychology, social psychology and neurosciences. The behavior we exhibited in our future relationship as we grow into an adult is termed as attachment styles (Kottler and Shephard, 2015).
There are basically three types of attachment styles though may come with different words, but all states the same thing. According to Seccombe, 2015, Kottler & Shephard, 2015 attachment styles can be classified as: Secure attachment style – this form of attachment style is observed when an infant feel safe when their primary caregiver(mother) are out of sight. Another one is the unsecure attachment style which is subdivided into two namely: …show more content…
I will love to state clearly here that my attachment style is a blend of both secure and ambivalent. Maybe I got the secured attachment style from my mother and the ambivalent from my father. My attachment styles are bored out of my relationship with my wife and partly with my close friends. The reason why I described my attachment style as a blend of secured and ambivalent lies on he fact that I am likely easy to get attach to people around me; and comfortable relying on others and having them depends on me too. I always get myself adjusted to situations whenever am being rejected and abandoned by others. These behaviors are good examples of a secured attachment (Seccombe, 2015). On the hand, I have the tendency of getting closer to people that I love even at first sight even though they may not do same to me. This is a good example of
Attachment theory is a psychodynamics theory postulating that the way in which an infant’s form attachment early in life with their parents affect their later relationship in life with other people especially our romantic relationship (Seccombe, 2015). This theory as put forward by Bowlby in late 1950 span through many facets of our life and disciplines such as development psychology, social psychology and neurosciences. The behavior we exhibited in our future relationship as we grow into an adult is termed as attachment styles (Kottler and Shephard, 2015).
There are basically three types of attachment styles though may come with different words, but all states the same thing. According to Seccombe, 2015, Kottler & Shephard, 2015 attachment styles can be classified as: Secure attachment style – this form of attachment style is observed when an infant feel safe when their primary caregiver(mother) are out of sight. Another one is the unsecure attachment style which is subdivided into two namely: …show more content…
I will love to state clearly here that my attachment style is a blend of both secure and ambivalent. Maybe I got the secured attachment style from my mother and the ambivalent from my father. My attachment styles are bored out of my relationship with my wife and partly with my close friends. The reason why I described my attachment style as a blend of secured and ambivalent lies on he fact that I am likely easy to get attach to people around me; and comfortable relying on others and having them depends on me too. I always get myself adjusted to situations whenever am being rejected and abandoned by others. These behaviors are good examples of a secured attachment (Seccombe, 2015). On the hand, I have the tendency of getting closer to people that I love even at first sight even though they may not do same to me. This is a good example of