emotional insecurity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofemotionalandinsecurity
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emotional
adjective
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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insecurity
noun
uk/ˌɪn.sɪˈkjʊə.rə.ti/us/ˌɪn.səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/
a feeling of lacking confidence and not being sure of your own abilities or of whether people like ...
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(Definition ofemotionalandinsecurityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In turn,emotionalinsecurityis hypothesized to be associated with child psychological symptoms.
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Accordingly, the paths betweenemotionalinsecurityand child psychological symptoms were subsequently estimated in the second stage of analyses.
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Accordingly, to examine medational hypotheses, the paths betweenemotionalinsecurityand child psychological symptoms were subsequently estimated in the models.
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In the penultimate section, we illustrate the implications ofemotionalinsecurityfor the development of childhood psychopathology in domestically violent homes.
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The five indicators ofemotionalinsecurityeach served as the manifest indicators of a latent construct of emotional insecurity in the interparental relationship.
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Suppor ting predictions, specific configurations of family functioning characterized by enmeshment and disengagement were especially robust predictors of children'semotionalinsecurityand psychological symptomtalogy.
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Linkages among the profiles of family functioning,emotionalinsecurity, and child psychological symptoms were consistently found for planned comparisons involving disengaged and enmeshed families but not for adequate families.
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Therefore, elucidating process relations among child insecurity and mental illness is a critical step toward advancing a more comprehensive understanding ofemotionalinsecurityand developmental psychopathology.
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Emotionalinsecurity, in turn, not only predicted child symptomatology, but also accounted for par t of the association between enmeshed and disengaged family functioning and child symptomatology.
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Consistent with our integration of the emotional security hypothesis and family systems theory, we specifically hypothesized that family enmeshment and disengagement would increase children'semotionalinsecurityin the marital subsystem.
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Such children may possess all the comforts, but they live in a condition ofemotionalinsecuritythat is dangerous to themselves and may afterwards be dangerous to society.
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Depression,emotionalinsecurity, and mental health disorders can follow due to traumatic experiences.
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One such study suggested that developing intimate friends can be followed byemotionalinsecurityand loneliness in some children when those intimate friends interact with others.
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The fact that the majority of human beings are emotionally vulnerable, and have the capacity to be hurt, implies thatemotionalinsecuritycould merely be a difference in awareness.
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