[The reliability and validity of adult attachment scale (AAS-1996 revised edition): a report on its application in China]
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Wei-li Wu1, Wei Zhang, Xie-he Liu
1The Center of Mental Health, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Objective:
AAS is an adult attachment scale revised by Collins in 1996. This paper mainly reports on its use in our mental health center and on an evaluation of its internal consistency reliability, discriminatory validity and construct-related validity.
Methods:
The patients group (n=89) and the normal group (n=110) were studied with the use of AAS.
Results:
Cronbach's alpha coefficients in normal group are higher than 0.7. The discriminatory validity in anxiety and close-dependence dimension is good. The score of construct-related validity is high.
Conclusion:
The results are consistent with the theoretic construct that AAS divides adult attachment into three factors. But this scale still needs revision of its one or two items on account of cultural difference. The application of AAS will accelerate the research into the relationship between adult attachment style and adult marriage, consanguinity.
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