“…Within the attachment field, self-reports specifically designed for school-age children have been developed following Harter’s (1982) format, while tools originally designed for use with adolescents and adults and subsequently adapted for younger children use the Likert format. In this article, we focused on two widely used questionnaires designed to measure attachment in middle childhood, namely the Italian versions of the ECR-RC (Marci, Moscardino, & Altoè, 2019) and the SS (Marci, Lionetti et al, 2018). The former has a Likert-type scale response format, in line with the original scale used with adults (ECR, Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000), whereas the latter has Harter’s (1982) format.…”