@article{ref1,
title="Behavioral responses to anxiety: Self-reliance, counterdependence, and overdependence",
journal="Anxiety, stress, and coping",
year="1992",
author="Quick, James   Campbell and Joplin, Janice R. and Nelson, Debra L. and Quick, Jonathan D.",
volume="5",
number="1",
pages="41-54",
abstract="Abstract This article builds on the original foundations of attachment theory and traces the strategies for achieving felt security into the adulthood years. The theoretical case is made for a link between a secure, self-reliant strategy and healthy adulthood functioning. This self-reliant strategy counteracts the health risk factors of social isolation and separation in human relationships. The strategy results in an enduring personality characteristic of self-reliance, a paradoxical pattern of behavior characterized by flexibility and bonding in relationships which appears rather autonomous. This article proposes a work-related measure of self-reliance which also incorporates the two insecure, unhealthy strategies for achieving felt security. These strategies are the dismissing strategy, which results in a counterdependent pattern of behavior, and the preoccupied strategy, which results in an overdependent behavior pattern. Preliminary reliability and validity data concerning the Self-Reliance Inventory are presented.<p />",
language="",
issn="1061-5806",
doi="10.1080/10615809208250486",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809208250486"
}