Attachment Styles and Spiritual Maturity: The Role of Secur…

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Instructions: Please read the following three descriptions and check the one that best describes your mother's relationship to you during your pre-adolescent years.

D She was generally warm and responsive; she was good at knowing when to be supportive and when to let me operate on my own; our relationship was almost always comfortable, and I have no major reservations or complaints about it.

□ She was fairly cold, distant, and rejecting, and not very responsive; I often felt that her concerns were elsewhere; I frequently had the feeling that she would just as soon not have had me.

She was noticeably inconsistent in her reactions to me, sometimes warm and □ sometimes not; she had her own needs and agendas which sometimes got in the way of her receptiveness and responsiveness to my needs; she definitely

loved me but didn' t show it in the best way.

Hazen, C., & Shaver, P. R. ( I 9 87 )-

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