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Internal structure and reliability of the Attachment Insecurity Screening Inventory (AISI) for children age 6 to 12

Anouk Spruit1, Inge Wissink2, Marc J Noom2,3

  • 1Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. a.spruit@uva.nl.

BMC Psychiatry
|February 7, 2018
PubMed

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This study validates the Attachment Insecurity Screening Inventory (AISI) 6-12 using parent reports, confirming its three-factor structure for assessing child attachment. Findings support its use in screening attachment issues in middle childhood.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Attachment Theory

Background:

  • Attachment quality is crucial for child development.
  • Parental reports offer a practical method for assessing attachment.
  • The Attachment Insecurity Screening Inventory (AISI) 6-12 is a parent-report tool for children aged 6-12.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the internal structure and reliability of the AISI 6-12.
  • To assess the validity of parental perspectives on child attachment quality.
  • To evaluate the AISI 6-12's suitability for screening attachment insecurities.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized multilevel confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) to assess internal structure.
  • Employed multi-group CFA to test measurement invariance across mothers and fathers.
  • Calculated reliability using Cronbach's and ordinal alphas with a sample of 681 parents and 372 children.

Main Results:

  • Multilevel CFA confirmed a three-factor model: avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment.
  • Multi-group CFA demonstrated full configural and metric invariance, and partial scalar/strict invariance between mothers and fathers.
  • Sufficient reliability coefficients were found for the AISI 6-12 scores.

Conclusions:

  • Parental reports, like the AISI 6-12, show potential for screening attachment-related problems in middle childhood.
  • Further development is recommended to enhance the AISI 6-12's validity.
  • Future research should replicate findings and strengthen evidence for the AISI 6-12's appropriate use and validity.
Abstract

Keywords:
AISIAssessmentAttachmentMiddle childhoodParent report

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