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M B Sperling1, P Foelsch, C Grace
1Department of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA.
Abstract:
To assess the association between several recently generated measures of adult attachment, a sample of 160 college students were administered the following 6 scales: Hazan-Shaver attachment self-report (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), Attachment Style Measure (Simpson, 1990), Adult Attachment Scale (Collins & Read, 1990), Attachment Style Inventory (Sperling & Berman, 1991), Reciprocal Attachment Questionnaire (West, Sheldon, & Reiffer, 1987), and Anxious Romantic Attachment Scale (Hindy, Schwarz, & Brodsky, 1989). Findings indicated that scale and subscale reliability and intercorrelations generally show sufficient evidence of expected consistencies. There is also indication for a primary distinction between the omnibus spheres of positive-affiliative attachment versus negative-conflictual attachment, with secondary distinctions among the attachment styles within each sphere. Notwithstanding the overall consistencies, suggestions are offered for context-specific utilization of each of the measures reviewed.
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