Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire

West, Malcolm; Rose, M. Sarah; Spreng, Sheila; Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne; Adam, Kenneth S.

doi:10.1037/t65087-000

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“…With respect to overall sex differences, boys were more dismissing in attachment than girls, consistent with several other studies of adolescent attachment, assessed both by the AAI and by questionnaire (Kobak et al, 1993; West et al, 1998). Moreover, girls reported more fearful attachment with romantic partners and tended to report less romantic security than boys.…”

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“…Gender differences in adolescents' primary attachment are sometimes reported, with girls more secure (e.g., Allen et al, 2003; Buist et al, 2002) or angry/preoccupied and boys more deactivating/dismissing (Kobak et al, 1993; West, Rose, Spreng, Sheldon‐Keller, & Adam, 1998). There is no evolutionary justification, however, for sex differences in infant attachment strategies (Simpson, 1999).…”

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Attachment Style With Mother, Father, Best Friend, and Romantic Partner During Adolescence

Doyle¹,

Lawford²,

Markiewicz³

2009

J of Research on Adolesc

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Self-reported attachment styles with mother, father, best friend, and romantic partner were assessed longitudinally across adolescence. Three cohorts (ages 13, 16, and 19 years; N 5 373) from a community sample were followed across 2 years. There was only one change in attachment styles with age: the oldest adolescents were more dismissive than the younger. Adolescents were more secure with mother than with father, and most dismissive and fearful with father. Boys were more dismissing than girls, who were more fearful with a romantic partner (n 5 158). Across time, attachment insecurity with father was associated with insecurity with a best friend. Attachment insecurity with a romantic partner was associated primarily with insecurity with friend, but changes over time tended to be associated with insecurity with mother. Results support the view of a differentiated hierarchy of attachment figures in adolescence, with the quality of parental attachment contributing to close extra-familial relationships.

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Attachment Style With Mother, Father, Best Friend, and Romantic Partner During Adolescence

Doyle¹,

Lawford²,

Markiewicz³

2009

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…The validity and reliability of the AAQ have been established with clinical and community-based adolescent populations. The AAQ has also demonstrated strong convergent validity with the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1985), the most commonly used measure of attachment in adults (West et al, 1998). In the current study, the total score was used to index adolescents' perceptions of the availability and responsiveness of their attachment figure.…”

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“…Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire. Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ; West, Rose, Spreng, Sheldon-Keller, & Adam, 1998). The AAQ is a nine-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure adolescents' perceptions of the relationship with their attachment figure.…”

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Interpersonal predictors of early therapeutic alliance in a transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatment for adolescents with anxiety and depression.

2012

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The importance of therapeutic alliance in predicting treatment success is well established, but less is known about client characteristics that predict alliance. This study examined alliance predictors in adolescents with anxiety and/or depressive disorders (n=31) who received a transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatment, the Unified Protocol for the Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Youth (Ehrenreich, Buzzella, Trosper, Bennett, & Barlow, 2008) in the context of a larger randomized controlled trial. Alliance was assessed at session three by therapists, clients, and independent observers. Results indicated that alliance ratings across the three informant perspectives were significantly associated with one another, but that pretreatment interpersonal variables (e.g., social support, attachment security, and social functioning in current family and peer relationships) were differentially associated with varying informant perspectives. Adolescent and observer ratings of alliance were both predicted by adolescent self-reports on measures reflecting how they perceive their interpersonal relationships. In addition, adolescent-reported symptom severity at pretreatment predicted observer ratings of alliance such that adolescents who indicated greater anxiety and depressive symptoms were rated as having stronger early alliances by independent observers. Therapists perceived having weaker early alliances with adolescents evidencing clinically significant depression at intake as compared with adolescents diagnosed with anxiety disorders alone. Future research is needed to examine whether identification of relevant interpersonal factors at intake can help improve initial therapeutic engagement and resulting outcomes for the psychosocial treatment of adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders.

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“…In addition, it is stated that attachment in infancy, childhood, and adolescence is related to care needs and security, whereas attachment in adulthood is generally related to sexual intercourse. For this reason, it is pointed out that the attachment styles of the spouses are also very important in terms of coping with the psychological problems experienced in illness and sexual satisfaction (West and Sheldon-Keller, 1994; Valdez et al, 2021). As such, emotional awareness, problem solving, ability to maintain healthy relationships, and psychological resilience of securely attached spouses are higher than insecurely attached spouses (Johansson et al, 2021; Shell et al, 2021).…”

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Investigation of the Effect of Sexual Attitudes and Attachment Styles of Spouses of Cancer Patients on Their Psychological Resilience

Tanriverdi¹,

Turan²

2022

J Nerv Ment Dis

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It is pointed out that the attachment styles of spouses are also very important in terms of coping with the psychological problems experienced in illness and sexual satisfaction. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of sexual attitudes and attachment styles of spouses of cancer patients on their psychological resilience. The research was carried out as a descriptive study based on the relational screening model between January and November 2021. A total of 429 spouses of cancer patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The data were collected online using the Participant Information Form, which was prepared by the researcher, Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR-S), and Hendrick Sexual Attitude Scale (BSAS). Data analyses included descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal-Wallis, and linear regression using the SPSS 25.0 program. Two hundred forty-six women and 183 men were included in the study, and it has been detected that RSA scores of female participants were higher than male participants. In addition, a positive relation between RSA scores and ECR-S scores (r = 0.247) and a negative relation between RSA and BSAS (r = −0.414) were detected ( p < 0.05). It was determined that the psychological resilience of spouses of cancer patients was related to sexual attitudes and attachment styles.

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Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire

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Attachment Style With Mother, Father, Best Friend, and Romantic Partner During Adolescence

Attachment Style With Mother, Father, Best Friend, and Romantic Partner During Adolescence

Interpersonal predictors of early therapeutic alliance in a transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatment for adolescents with anxiety and depression.

Investigation of the Effect of Sexual Attitudes and Attachment Styles of Spouses of Cancer Patients on Their Psychological Resilience

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