A psychometric evaluation of the tripartite attachment battery

Q2 Social Sciences

Interpersona Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI:10.5964/ijpr.6427

L. McWilliams, A. Coveney

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Abstract

The Tripartite Attachment Battery (TAB) includes scales assessing attachment security, organized insecurity (i.e., anxiety and avoidance), and disorganized attachment. This recently developed series of measures provides expanded options for assessing attachment characteristics (e.g., a scale that directly assesses attachment security) and may improve the assessment of attachment anxiety and avoidance by including items capturing the secondary attachment strategies associated with them (viz., hyperactivation and deactivation). The present study utilized a community sample (N = 386) to evaluate and refine these scales. Factor analyses were conducted to: (a) examine the dimensionality of each TAB scale, and (b) guide the creation of empirically-derived subscales. The Secure Attachment Scale and the Organized Insecurity Scale were multidimensional. The Disorganized Attachment Scale was unidimensional. Most of the empirically-derived measures had internal consistency and test-retest reliability levels in the range considered adequate or better. Their correlations with a measure of psychopathology provided preliminary support for their construct validity. The TAB scales are promising measures of adult attachment characteristics. Further investigation of their psychometric properties is warranted.

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三段式依恋的心理测量学评价

三方依恋量表(TAB)包括评估依恋安全性、有组织不安全感(即焦虑和回避)和无组织依恋的量表。最近开发的一系列措施为评估依恋特征提供了扩展的选择(例如，直接评估依恋安全性的量表)，并可能通过包括捕获与之相关的二级依恋策略的项目(即，过度激活和失活)来改进对依恋焦虑和回避的评估。本研究利用社区样本(N = 386)来评估和完善这些量表。进行因子分析:(a)检查每个TAB量表的维度，(b)指导创建经验推导的子量表。安全依恋量表和有组织不安全感量表是多维度的。无组织依恋量表为单维量表。大多数经验推导的测量具有内部一致性和测试-重测信度水平在被认为足够或更好的范围内。它们与精神病理学测量的相关性为其构念效度提供了初步支持。TAB量表是衡量成人依恋特征的有效方法。对其心理测量特性的进一步研究是有必要的。

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Interpersona Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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38 weeks

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