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Secure attachment refers to a bond where individuals feel safe, supported, and connected, enabling them to express emotions freely, seek comfort from their partner, and confidently explore their environment knowing they have a reliable base to return to.
Secure attachment: This attachment style is characterized by feeling comfortable with closeness and intimacy, being able to communicate feelings and needs in relationships, and being willing to seek help and support when needed.
The concept of attachment styles grew from attachment theory and the research that emerged throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Today, psychologists typically recognize four main attachment styles: secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized.
A secure attachment style is characterized by having a healthy, balanced, and trusting way of relating to others (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). Children and adults with secure attachment have a general sense of feeling safe, understood, and valued in relationships.
The four S’s of a secure attachment style refer to feeling safe, seen, soothed, and secure. Making children feel these ways may help them establish healthy bonds in their adulthood.
Avoidant, anxious, and disorganized are considered insecure attachment styles. If a child can consistently rely on their parents to fulfill their needs growing up, they’re likely to...
The secure attachment style is the most common type of attachment in western society. Research suggests that around 66% of the US population is securely attached. People who have developed this type of attachment are self-contented, social, warm, and easy to connect to.