0 present participle of dismiss
1 to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering:
2 to remove someone from their job, especially because they have done something wrong:
He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.
Fearful adults scored extremely low and significantly lower than preoccupied and dismissing adults on the histrionic and narcissistic dimensions.
They also claim the kin they choose, dismissing the recent past, for now, like a bad dream.
Instead of dismissing this 'disease' as pathological chaos, a better approach is to ask what motivated people to rebel.
Adults are assigned to one of three primary categories (dismissing, preoccupied, or autonomous) on the basis of qualitative characteristics of the narrative.
For example, dismissing attachment was represented within both systems, and avoidant attachment primarily within the organized system.
As before, no significant effects were observed for a more insecure - dismissing attachment strategy using either directional or absolute difference scores.
Three secure - autonomous and 1 dismissing respondent were classified as unresolved.
This means that predictions from preoccupation may have included adolescents with moderate levels of preoccupation within an overall secure or dismissing attachment organization.
