{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "id": 2732,
        "slug": "attachment-styles",
        "title": "Attachment Styles",
        "description": "Adult attachment styles derived from early caregiver relationships.",
        "summary": "The attachment categories used in adult attachment research, following the Bowlby\u2013Ainsworth tradition, each with a short behavioral description and an approximate prevalence. Earned secure is included as the commonly cited route from insecure early experience to secure functioning.",
        "use_when": [
            "You need standard names and plain-language descriptions for relationship-pattern vocabulary.",
            "A question about attachment theory should be grounded in the usual four categories rather than improvised labels."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "The prevalence figures are approximate, drawn from differing samples, and as listed they add up to more than 100%. Read each as a rough magnitude, not as a partition of the population.",
            "These categories describe tendencies in close relationships and are not clinical diagnoses."
        ],
        "related": [
            "stages-of-development",
            "defense-mechanisms"
        ],
        "entry_count": 5,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "style",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Secure"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "description",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Comfortable with intimacy and autonomy. Seeks s\u2026"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "prevalence",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "~56% of adults"
            }
        ],
        "category": "Psychology",
        "category_slug": "psychology",
        "tags": "psychology,attachment,relationships,development",
        "view_count": 35,
        "created_at": 1793403093,
        "updated_at": 1793403093
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "style": "Secure",
            "description": "Comfortable with intimacy and autonomy. Seeks support without excessive worry.",
            "prevalence": "~56% of adults"
        },
        {
            "style": "Anxious (Preoccupied)",
            "description": "High anxiety about relationships. Seeks reassurance and fears abandonment.",
            "prevalence": "~20% of adults"
        },
        {
            "style": "Avoidant (Dismissive)",
            "description": "Values independence. Dismisses the importance of close relationships.",
            "prevalence": "~25% of adults"
        },
        {
            "style": "Fearful-Avoidant (Disorganized)",
            "description": "Desires closeness but fears it. Conflicting approach and avoidance behaviors.",
            "prevalence": "~4% of adults"
        },
        {
            "style": "Earned Secure",
            "description": "Adults whose early experiences were insecure but who function securely, often through later stable relationships or therapy and a coherent account of their history.",
            "prevalence": "Not reliably estimated"
        }
    ]
}