ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2017
Assessing Attachment Representations in Adolescents: Discriminant Validation of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System.
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- Representations of adult attachment and shame in parents of children on the autism spectrum.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A Pilot Study on the Influence of Maternal Attachment Representations on Maternal Heart Rate Mediated by Perceived Stress.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Personality Disorders and Attachment Trauma in Adolescent Patients with Psychiatric Disorders.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Attachment-Related Differences in Emotion Regulation in Adults: A Systematic Review on Attachment Representations.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Identifying Risk and Resilience Factors in the Intergenerational Cycle of Maltreatment: Results From theFrontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Secure Attachment Representation in Adolescence Buffers Heart-Rate Reactivity in Response to Attachment-Related Stressors.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Disorder-specific attachment characteristics and experiences of childhood abuse and neglect in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and a major depressive episode.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2018Article
- High Prevalence of Insecure Attachment in Patients with Primary Hypertension.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The contribution of attachment to human development and clinical risk is well established for children and adults, yet there is relatively limited knowledge about attachment in adolescence due to the poor availability of construct valid measures. The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) is a reliable and valid instrument to assess adult attachment status. This study examines for the first time the discriminant validity of the AAP in adolescents. In our sample of 79 teenagers between 15 and 18 years, 42 % were classified as secure, 34 % as insecure-dismissing, 13 % as insecure-preoccupied and 11 % as unresolved. The results demonstrated discriminant validity for using the AAP in that age group, with no associations between attachment classifications and verbal intelligence, social desirability, story length or sociodemographic variables. These results poise the AAP to be used in clinical intervention and large-scale research investigating normative and atypical developmental correlates and sequelae of attachment, including psychopathology in adolescence.
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