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Article: Further validation of a measure of Parent-Adult attachment style.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Two studies using the Parent-Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire (P-AASQ) are described. In both, college students were classified into 1 of 3 parent-adult attachment style groups, and their scores on a common set of adjustment measures were examined. Results provide further support for the reliability and concurrent and predictive validity of scores from the P-AASQ.
During the past two decades, attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969, 1982, 1988) has generated substantial literature on late adolescent and adult attachment relationships, one that has important implications for healthy human development across the life span (Lopez & Brennan, 2000). These lines of inquiry ...