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¶ … Secure Attachment
There are many attachment styles and they can often influence a person's life by affecting anything from the simplest decision to more complicated and even life changing choices. Thus, it is important to reflect upon one's own attachment style so that one may better understand himself and be successful.
My attachment style as designated by the questionnaire was classified as "secure attachment." According to the test, my attachment style was further classified as follows:
"According to your questionnaire responses, your attachment-related anxiety score is 2.12, on a scale ranging from 1 (low anxiety) to 7 (high anxiety). Your attachment-related avoidance score is 2.92, on a scale ranging from 1 (low avoidance) to 7 (high avoidance)." [1: Not Applicable. (2011). "Attachment Styles and Close Relationships." Attachment Style. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from .]
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I think that it is also important to comment on how family and culture have influenced my attachment. My family encourages me to do whatever makes me feel happy, so I rarely feel pressured and often rely on my own judgment to make decision in my life. Because I tend to be calm and have low avoidance, I believe I am relatively mature, and this is also due to the family and culture with which I grew up. I believe that having relied on my own capabilities has also helped me in organizing myself from a very young age,…
There are other attachment styles, however, including emotions such as preoccupied, dismissing and fearful-avoidant. However, there are many ways to describe attachment. According to the John Bolwby, some other attachment styles are proximity maintenance, safe haven, secure base and separation distress s. Another source describes attachment style with a romantic connotation, such as the first case described above, which has also utilized a questionnaire to describe my attachment style. [2: Cherry, K. (2011). "Attachment Styles." About.com Guide. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from <http://psychology.about.com/od/loveandattraction/ss/attachmentstyle.htm>.] [3: Cherry, K. (2011). "Attachment Styles." About.com Guide. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from <http://psychology.about.com/od/loveandattraction/ss/attachmentstyle.htm>. ] [4: Not Applicable. (2011). "What's your Romantic Attachment Style?" About.com Psychology. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from <http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-attachment-quiz.htm>.]
Once again, it is very important to find one's attachment style, and I have come to believe that, indeed, the test does describe me very well. Studies also accord attachment quite some importance. According to the Chris Fraley at the University of Illinois, research on adult attachment is important to find what and how intimate relationships develop between adults. Though the study in this overview by Professor Fraley is quite comprehensive, the conclusions are also to be further studied. For example, the author states that it is necessary for future researchers to find ways "to better determine whether a relationship is actually service attachment-related functions." [5: Fraley, C. (2010). "A Brief Overview of Adult Attachment Theory and Research." University of Illinois. Retrieved April 19, 2011, from < http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/attachment.htm>. ]
I still believe that having taken this test has allowed me a bit of self-examination, that I think will only further help me grow, and I do believe that studies on this topic are significant, and can define who we are as adults.
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