The Adult Attachment Interview and self-reports of attachment style: an empirical rapprochement.
Although 10 studies have been published on the empirical overlap of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and measures of self-reported attachment style, results in this literature have been inconsistently interpreted in narrative reviews. This report was designed as a rapprochement of the AAI and attachment style literatures and includes 3 studies. Study 1 (combined N = 961) is a meta-analytic review showing that by J. Cohen's (1992) criteria (mean r = .09), the association between AAI security and attachment style dimensions is trivial to small. Study 2 (N = 160) confirms meta-analytic results with state-of-the-art assessments of attachment security and also examines attachment dimensions in relation to the Big 5 personality traits. Finally, Study 3 is an investigation of 50 engaged couples that shows that developmental and social psychological measures of attachment security predict somewhat distinct--though theoretically anticipated--aspects of functioning in adult relationships.
Roisman
Glenn I
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Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Holland
Ashley
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Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Fortuna
Keren
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Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Fraley
R Chris
RC
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Clausell
Eric
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Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Clarke
Alexis
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Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
D000328:Adult; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009769:Object Attachment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires