Attachment Behaviors and Health As the medical community tries
to find ways to help patients become more independent in
managing their health issues, researchers have discover how
emotional development as children may affect how one copes with
adverse events, like illness, as an adult. This article reviews
research that investigated the relationship between attachment
styles and how this may affect how people react to stressors
such as illness or pain. Attachment behaviors are developed
during infancy, as babies depend on those around them. A child
may become very attached or clingy, or distance himself from his
caregiver if, for example, his needs aren't being met when he is
hungry or hurt. The attachment behaviors developed during early
childhood generally follow through adulthood. Two negative
attachment styles are attachment anxiety and attachment
avoidance. Both of these are seen as extremes, with attachment
anxiety causing excess worry and dependence on others, and
attachment avoidance causing a uneasin