articleAttachment & Human DevelopmentMay 1, 2009Closed access

The first 10,000 Adult Attachment Interviews: distributions of adult attachment representations in clinical and non-clinical groups

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Abstract

More than 200 adult attachment representation studies, presenting more than 10,500 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1985 Main, M., Kaplan, N. and Cassidy, J. 1985. “Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the representational level”. In Growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Edited by: Bretherton, I. and Waters, E. 66–104. 50(1–2)[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) classifications, have been conducted in the past 25 years. In a series of analyses on the distributions of the AAI classifications in various cultural and age groups, fathers, and high-risk and clinical samples, we used the distribution of the…

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Keywords
  • Attachment measures
  • Psychology
  • Normative
  • Personality disorders
  • Attachment theory
  • Developmental psychology
  • Strange situation
  • Personality
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