%0 Journal Article
%T Behavioral responses to anxiety: Self-reliance, counterdependence, and overdependence
%J Anxiety, stress, and coping
%D 1992
%A Quick, James   Campbell
%A Joplin, Janice R.
%A Nelson, Debra L.
%A Quick, Jonathan D.
%V 5
%N 1
%P 41-54
%X 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 />
%G 
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 1061-5806
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809208250486