insecure
She started insecurely, but gained confidence.
I heard his voice piping insecurely.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Doubt & ambivalence
ambivalence
ambivalent
ambivalently
askance
be in two mindsidiom
fence-sitting
have a foot in both campsidiom
haw
hem
hem and hawidiom
nonconcern
nonplussed
quandary
rudderless
shades of greyidiom
warily
wary
waver
wavering
waveringly

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Uncertainty

Examples of insecurely

insecurely
Securely and insecurely attached children with low-risk family environments and low ratings on negativity had similar likelihood of showing the problem trajectory.
Fearful toddlers who were also insecurely attached exhibited elevated cortisol levels.
The 2 x 2 table provided information about the frequency with which the child responded securely or insecurely to both rejecting and nurturant parent behaviors.
The reader should appreciate how insecurely founded are the various ideas, although there is no shortage of circumstantial evidence.
Among insecurely attached children, economic risk accounted for 60% of the variance in total depressive symptoms.
However, differential rates for securely and insecurely attached children were pronounced for contexts with risk in the domains of family ecology, infant negativity, or both.
A stronger test of a protective effect is a direct comparison between securely and insecurely attached children within the same context.
Despite the differences between securely and insecurely attached children in these high-risk situations, the two direct comparisons are not statistically significant.
However, negative reactivity does not determine whether a child will be securely or insecurely attached to a caregiver.
At age 5, 85% of securely attached children and 50% of insecurely attached ones passed a task requiring an understanding of information access.
Conversely, insecurely attached children remembered negative events more accurately.
One quarter of the insecurely attached children in multiproblem family environments demonstrated the problem trajectory.
This finding suggests that temperamental distress is reflected in attachment behavior but does not necessarily determine whether the child is classified as securely versus insecurely attached.
This 2 x 2 table provided information about the frequency with which the child behaved securely and insecurely following the child's initial proximity seeking and insecure behaviors.
But both are placed in the category "insecurely attached" because of a hypothesis that they are at risk for anxiety and impaired social functioning in the distant future.
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