“…In a study of a treatment-seeking outpatient sample the authors surprisingly, and inconsistent with what they expected from previous research, found that attachmentrelated avoidance positively correlated to subscales in the affiliation dimension of interpersonal problems (Selfsacrificing and Non-assertive) and that attachmentrelated anxiety positively correlated to subscales in the dominant dimension of interpersonal problems (Cold, Vindictive, Socially inhibited and Dominant) (Haggerty, Hilsenroth & Vala-Stewart, 2009 (BakermansKranenburg & van Ijzendoorn, 2009;Fossati, Feeney, Donati, Donini, Novella, Bagnato, et al, 2003;Strauss et al, 2006;van Ijzendoorn & Bakermans-Kranenburg, 1996;Waters, Hamilton, & Weinfield, 2000). The findings by Haggerty and collegues (2009) were based on a limited sample size.…”