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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Stress - Strain Relationship 5

In the last byte, we looked at Personality Hardiness. In today's byte, we look at come concepts of self-reliance attempt to understand the role it plays in managing stress.

Self-Reliance is a personality attribute related to how people form and maintain supportive attachments with others. It is a healthy, secure, interdependence pattern of behavior related to the above attachment with others. Originally when the concept of self-reliance was formed building on the attachment theory.

The attachment theory identifies 3 distinct patterns of attachment; these patterns extend into behavioral strategies during adulthood, in professional as well as personal relationships; this has been researched well.

Self-reliance is a secure pattern of attachment and interdependence but, there are two insecure patterns of attachments - these are: counterdependence and overdependence. We shall discuss about these in the next byte.

Self-reliant people respond to stressful, threatening situations by reaching out to others appropriately - this is flexible, responsive. Such an individual maintains multiple, diverse relationships and will always appear confident, enthusiastic and persistent when facing a challenge.

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