Attachment disorder is usually a childhood diagnosis, but attachment styles can affect relationships in adulthood. Learn about attachment disorder and therapy.

The primary attachment categories. Four main attachment styles emerge from childhood experiences and often manifest in adult relationships. Understanding these patterns can illuminate recurring ...

To clarify the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adult attachment style, Widom, Czaja, Kazakowski, and Chauhan (2017) conducted research with 650 adults.

Psychologists have identified four primary attachment styles that emerge from childhood and carry into adulthood. These styles often dictate how individuals approach romantic relationships ...

The attachment style you were raised with doesn’t explain everything about your relationships and who you are as an adult, but understanding it may help explain patterns you notice in relationships.

The styles come from attachment theory, which arose in the late 1960s out of work conducted by psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Bowlby hypothesized that if young children did not form ...

The way a disorganized attachment style can show up in adult relationships is predictable: people often fluctuate, sometimes chaotically, between clingy and avoidant behaviors.

Researchers measured 1) adult attachment style, using the three categories of secure, avoidant, and anxious, with the Relationship Style Questionnaire (RSQ); 2) ...