On Being Insecure about the Assessment of Attachment Styles

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To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire (2015, background): “getting too close to me,” “I find it relatively easy to get close to others”) of the Relationships Scales Questionnaire (Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994; Kurdek, 2002).”
Attachment dimensions and the big five personality traits: Associations and comparative ability to predict relationship quality (2006, background): “…style measures and scales assessing the Big Five traits are only modestly or moderately related, it seems likely that the ECR attachment scales will still account for unique variance in relationship quality even after the Big Five traits are statistically controlled (but see Kurdek, 2002).”
Predictors of Anxiety and Depression in Emerging Adulthood (2009, result): “The RSQ scale has adequate internal consistency (a = 0.75‐0.79) and produces four scales; however, factor analyses by other researchers indicated two broad, bipolar attachment factors: Secure-Anxious and Secure-Avoidance (Creasy and Hesson-McInnis 2001; Creasey et al. 1999; Kurdek 2002; Simpson et”
Orthogonal dreams in an oblique world: A meta-analysis of the association between attachment anxiety and avoidance (2012, background): “Although there is a great deal of variability in the measurement of adult attachment (see, Kurdek, 2002), a growing number of researchers rely on self-report surveys of the anxiety and avoidance dimensions (see, Fraley & Waller, 1998; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007).”