It could be just be part of a general tendency toward avoidant behavior and low resilience to stress. I'm sure "attachment style" is a useful handle for certain patterns of learned social behavior in intimate relationships, but getting anxious and ghosting after a mildly stressful text interaction doesn't seem meaningfully different from other kinds of maladaptive avoidance, like procrastinating studying with videogames or avoiding opening your bills.
All the literature I've read shows increasing screen use associated with impaired emotional regulation, increased irritability, anxiety and impulsivity, decreased long-term planning and persistence. Any one of those effects could handily account for people becoming less able to weather any stress in a relationship.
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It could be just be part of a general tendency toward avoidant behavior and low resilience to stress. I'm sure "attachment style" is a useful handle for certain patterns of learned social behavior in intimate relationships, but getting anxious and ghosting after a mildly stressful text interaction doesn't seem meaningfully different from other kinds of maladaptive avoidance, like procrastinating studying with videogames or avoiding opening your bills.
All the literature I've read shows increasing screen use associated with impaired emotional regulation, increased irritability, anxiety and impulsivity, decreased long-term planning and persistence. Any one of those effects could handily account for people becoming less able to weather any stress in a relationship.
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