Anxious Attachment Anxious attachment is an adaptive strategy to deal with stress that develops after a history of experiences with the caregiver. It reflects the anxiety about the caregivers’ availability, and fear that caregiver will be unresponsive or ineffective when needed (Bowlby,1980). Anxious...
Insecure styles of anxious attachment (preoccupations about abandonment) and avoidant attachment (avoidance of closeness in relationships) are robustly associated with sexual problems, relationship difficulties, and several indices of poorer physical and mental health. Similar indices of poorer sexual, ...
and females are both glad the sex is finished and anxious to leave, males report experiencing more disappointment, whereas females report experiencing more regret. Females who engage in casual sex may also possess a tendency toward depression (Grello, Welsh, & Harper,2006), whereas males who enga...
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Adult attachment and sexual functioning: A review of past research J Sex Med (2012) R.M.Costaet al. Anxious and avoidant attachment, vibrator use, anal sex, and impaired vaginal orgasm J Sex Med (2011) S.Brodyet al. Vaginal orgasm is associated with less use of immature psychological defe...
However, due to sex differences in life history trade-offs between mating and parenting, insecure males tend to adopt avoidant strategies, whereas insecure females tend to adopt anxious/ambivalent strategies, which maximize investment from kin and mates. Females are expected to shift to avoidant ...
, some suggest that sexual differences observed in the kind of infidelity that triggers jealousy cross-culturally could be only an artifact of attachment, shaping the masculine mind to develop a dismissing/avoidant attachment style, while the feminine attachment style is more likely to be anxious. ...
Utilizing hierarchical regression analysis, sex addiction was associated with being male, being younger, having a lower education level, being single, being an alcohol and nicotine user, psychiatric distress, low personal wellbeing, positive and negative affect, alexithymia, and anxious attachment. This...
Veale D, Miles S, Read J, Troglia A, Wylie K, Muir G. Sexual functioning and behavior of men with body dysmorphic disorder concerning penis size compared with men anxious about penis size and with controls: a cohort study. Sex Med. 2015;3(3):147–55. ...