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Reassurance seeking can soothe briefly but may maintain uncertainty intolerance, anxiety, dependency cycles, and interpersonal strain.
Worry attempts to prepare for danger but may maintain anxiety by overestimating threat and under-testing coping.
Attachment avoidance may appear as self-sufficiency, emotional distance, minimisation of need, or disengagement under relational stress.
Biological, social and cultural material that belongs in the formulation but is not a psychological mechanism. A factor needs case evidence before it explains anything.