TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Behavioral responses to anxiety: Self-reliance, counterdependence, and overdependence JO - Anxiety, stress, and coping A1 - Quick, James Campbell A1 - Joplin, Janice R. A1 - Nelson, Debra L. A1 - Quick, Jonathan D. SP - 41 EP - 54 VL - 5 IS - 1 N2 - 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.

LA - SN - 1061-5806 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809208250486 ID - ref1 ER -