Secure Attachment
Research-Informed
The baseline healthy attachment style; comfortable with both closeness and independence.
Evidence
Research-Informed
Secure attachment, the pattern of being comfortable with both closeness and independence, earns Research-Informed, matching the wider attachment evidence. The category is well measured (the Strange Situation, the Adult Attachment Interview and ECR self-report scales) and is the most common style in the normative distribution (Madigan et al., 2023). Weaker is the popular, deterministic reading that a secure label guarantees relationship success; real-world prediction is modest. The measurement is strong while the fixed-type framing is not.