Using the attachment network Q-sort for profiling one's attachment style with different attachment-figures.

ABSTRACT: Attachment instruments vary substantially in practicability of administration, employment of categorical versus dimensional scoring, quality of scales, and applicability to different attachment figures. The Attachment Network Q-sort (ANQ) is a self-report, quasi-qualitative instrument that discriminates relationship-specific attachment styles for multiple attachment figures. The current study assesses the properties of the ANQ in psychotherapy patients and in non-patient respondents, using mother, father and romantic partner as possible attachment figures. Analyzing the ANQ-data with latent class analysis, we found four types or classes of participants: a group with an overall secure profile, a group only insecure for father, a group only insecure for mother, and a group insecure for mothe

SUBMITTER: Kamperman AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7470453 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature