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Self-Report Measurement of Adult Attachment: An Integrative Overview.

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Self-Report Measurement of Adult Attachment: An Integrative Overview

Kelly A. Brennan

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Catherine L. Clark

Western Consortium for Public Health

Phillip R. Shaver

University of California, Davis

In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (1998) (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 46-76). New York: Guilford Press. Address correspondence to the first author at the Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, NY 14420. Electronic mail inquiries may be directed to kbrennan@brockport.edu.

Self-Report Measurement of Adult Attachment: An Integrative Overview

Ever since Hazan and Shaver (1987) showed that it is possible to use a self-report questionnaire to measure adolescent and adult romantic-attachment orientations (secure, anxious, and avoidant--the three patterns identified by Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, and Wall, 1978, in their studies of infant-caregiver attachment), a steady stream of variants and extensions of their questionnaire have been proposed. The resulting diversity often arouses frustration and confusion in newcomers to the field who wonder which of the many measures to use. The three of us are probably typical of attachment researchers in receiving as many as five telephone calls, letters, and

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