Devising and Validating the Adolescent Attachment Styles Questionnaire (AASQ)

Introduction: One of the most influential and current theories that opened new windows towards the horizon of theorizing and psychotherapy is attachment theory that was developed out of worksby Bowlby and Ainsworth. Of course it is worth noting that nearly none of the measures in this area specifically devised for theadolescence. So the purpose of this study is to Devise and Validate the Adolescent Attachment Styles Questionnaire (AASQ).Materials and methods: Present study, was conducted on 380 high school students from Mashhad by employing Exploratory FactorAnalysis (EFA) utilizing principal components method. Results: Finding reveals that three factors were extracted which were similar to categories described by Ainsworth; then, the validity of instrument was indicated through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Finally, the AASQ which includes 23 items and high internalconsistency coefficients is presented. Conclusion: AASQ can be applied for adolescence but due to somelimitations of the AASQ and also the significant difference between boys and girls in this questionnaire, it is recommended that thequestionnaire will be separately normalized for each gender.

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adolescent attachment styles ، ، questionnaire(AASQ) ، attachment styles ، validity ، reliability ،