title: [Reanalysis of the Bielefeld Partnership Expectations Questionnaire (BFPE)].
abstract: The results of a reanalysis of the Bielefeld Partnership Expectations Questionnaire (BFPE) are reported. The BFPE is a tool for the operationalisation of attachment patterns of adults. In two respects it differs from other attachment questionnaires: First, attachment patterns are operationalised qualitatively as configurations of scale scores. Second, five attachment patterns were empirically found by cluster-analysis. The sample used for the reanalysis (n = 1506) is representative for the German population at the age of 18 to 50 years. Factor analysis of the items confirmed the three scales of the BFPE: "Fear of Rejection", "Readiness for Self Disclosure" and "Conscious Need for Care", which yield good psychometric properties. Cluster analysis ("Ward" and "k-means") also confirmed the five attachment patterns. Three of them ("avoiding withdrawing", "ambivalent-clinging", and "ambivalent-withdrawing") resemble the "insecure" patterns found by Bartholomew & Horowitz . Two result from a partition of the pattern, otherwise identified as "secure", one representing a primary strategy ("secure") the other ("partially secure") representing a special form of the secondary deactivating strategy following Main . The reason of such a division is theoretically discussed, and its usefulness supported by empirical findings.
authors.affiliation: Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft. diether.hoeger@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Diether
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Höger
authors.forename: Yve
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Stöbel-Richter
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult