Attachment Styles
Adult attachment styles derived from early caregiver relationships.
The attachment categories used in adult attachment research, following the Bowlby–Ainsworth 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 it 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.
Watch out for
- 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.
The data
5 rows
| Style | Description | Prevalence |
|---|---|---|
| Secure | Comfortable with intimacy and autonomy. Seeks support without excessive worry. | ~56% of adults |
| Anxious (Preoccupied) | High anxiety about relationships. Seeks reassurance and fears abandonment. | ~20% of adults |
| Avoidant (Dismissive) | Values independence. Dismisses the importance of close relationships. | ~25% of adults |
| Fearful-Avoidant (Disorganized) | Desires closeness but fears it. Conflicting approach and avoidance behaviors. | ~4% of adults |
| Earned Secure | Adults whose early experiences were insecure but who function securely, often through later stable relationships or therapy and a coherent account of their history. | Not reliably estimated |
Fields
The shape of this dataset, read from the data itself: every column, its type and a real value. Agents can use this to plan a query without fetching the whole document.
| Section | Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | style | string | Secure |
| data | description | string | Comfortable with intimacy and autonomy. Seeks s… |
| data | prevalence | string | ~56% of adults |
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