Gender Roles and Adult Attachment Styles

Vocabulary flashcards covering gender roles, gender scripts, and the four adult attachment styles derived from childhood caregiver consistency.

Gender Roles

Culturally defined expected roles, responsibilities, values, and behaviors according to gender that vary historically and geographically.

Androgynous Personalities

Personalities displaying both instrumental and expressive traits; individuals with expressiveness tend to be strong in relationships.

Gender Scripts

Socially patterned behaviors tied to gender that influence and differentiate how men and women act within relationships.

Attachment Styles

Relational patterns learned from the consistency and responsiveness of caregivers during infancy and childhood that extend into adulthood.

Secure Attachment

An adult attachment style characterized by low anxiety (fear of abandonment) and low avoidance of intimacy, where individuals have a positive self-image and feel comfortable with intimacy and vulnerability.

Pre-occupied Attachment

An adult attachment style characterized by high anxiety (fear of abandonment) and low avoidance of intimacy, where individuals crave relationships and are hyper-focused on them.

Fearful Attachment

An adult attachment style characterized by high anxiety (fear of abandonment) and high avoidance of intimacy, driven by fear of getting hurt and the expectation that relationships will not work out.

Dismissing Attachment

An adult attachment style characterized by low anxiety (fear of abandonment) and high avoidance of intimacy.

Adult Attachment Grid

A two-dimensional grid classifying adult attachment styles into Secure, Pre-occupied, Dismissing, and Fearful quadrants based on levels of Avoidance of Intimacy and Anxiety / Fear of Abandonment.