title: [The interpretation of attachment in the Szondi test and in the questionnaire processes of attachment theory].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  [corrected] The Szondi-test is widely applied in clinical diagnostics in Hungary too, and the evidence resulting from the theory is that we can get information about attachment during its interpreting. Its validity is proven by empirical research and clinical experiences. By analyzing the modern attachment theory more thoroughly, it becomes clear in what ways the Szondi-test constellations regarding attachment are different from the classificationbased on questionnaires, allowing the discrete measurement of the attachment style. With the Szondi-test the classification to attachment style is more insecure, but if it is completed with exploration, it is more informative in vector C (vector of relation, attachment information), while short questionnaires make the classification to attachment style possible.
  
  
  METHODS
  In our empirical analysis we represent the integration of the above mentioned clinical and theoretical experiences. In the present analysis we compare the vector C and S constellation of the two-profile Szondi-test of 80 persons with the dimensions of ECR-R questionnaire and with Collins and Read's questionnaire classification regarding attachment style.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The statistical results refer to the fact that there is a legitimacy to compare questionnaire processes allowing the discrete classification of attachment and the Szondi-test's information content regarding attachment. With applying the methods together, we get a unique, complementary section of the information relating to attachment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Comparing the two methods (projective and questionnaire) establishes the need of theoretical integration as well. We also make an attempt to explain Fraley's evolutionary non-adaptivity of avoidant attachment, in the case of whose presence adaptivity of early attachment, counterbalancing the exploration and security need, and providing closeness--farness loses its balance.
authors.affiliation: Semmelweis Egyetem ETK, Alkalmazott Pszichologia Tanszek, Budapest, Hungary. torokia@gmail.com
authors.forename: András
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Török I
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vincze
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011386:Projective Techniques; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires