api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: json
dataset:
  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–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_when[2]: 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[2]: "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[2]: stages-of-development,defense-mechanisms
  category: Psychology
  category_slug: psychology
  tags: "psychology,attachment,relationships,development"
  view_count: 0
  entry_count: 5
  fields[3]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,style,string,Secure
    data,description,string,Comfortable with intimacy and autonomy. Seeks s…
    data,prevalence,string,~56% of adults
data[5]{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