Attachment Theory What Is Anxious Avoidant Attachment and What Causes It? 2 Jun 2021 Anxious avoidant attachment typically develops in the first 18 months of life. During this formative period, a child’s caregiver may have been emotionally unavailable to them most of the time. ...
Fortunately, there’s an explanation for these behaviors, and it lies in “attachment theory.”1,2First introduced about half a century ago, attachment theory is now used to explain individual differences (also called “styles”) in how people think, feel, and behave in relationships. The ...
(using actual sentences as themes), in keeping with principles of grounded theory (Glaser and Strauss1967) and a phenomenological approach extended by psychological anthropology (Rosaldo1984; Shweder and LeVine1984; Shweder1991; Berry et al.1997) were favored over other qualitative techniques. ...