The purpose of the present study is to compare the features of the Italian versions of two instruments for the assessment of attachment in preschool years: the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT) (Bretherton, Ridgeway, Cassidy, 1990) and the Attachment Q-Sort. (AQS) (Waters e Deane, 1985). More specifically, the study aims at verifying a) the convergent validity between ASCT and AQS; b) the concurrent validity between the measures obtained by ASCT and AQS and those ones of mothers' attachment obtained by Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) (Main, Kaplan, Cassidy, 1985); c) the discriminant validity of both ASCT and AQS by evaluating their independence from the assessment of children's temperament. Twenty children (8 females) aged 3 to 5 (M = 4,6; s.d. = 0,80) and their mothers participated to the research. The results support the validity of the AQS but not that one of the ASCT.
Analisi preliminari per la validazione dell'Attachment Story Completion Task e dell'Attachment Q-Sort
COPPOLA, Gabrielle;
2003-01-01
Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to compare the features of the Italian versions of two instruments for the assessment of attachment in preschool years: the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT) (Bretherton, Ridgeway, Cassidy, 1990) and the Attachment Q-Sort. (AQS) (Waters e Deane, 1985). More specifically, the study aims at verifying a) the convergent validity between ASCT and AQS; b) the concurrent validity between the measures obtained by ASCT and AQS and those ones of mothers' attachment obtained by Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) (Main, Kaplan, Cassidy, 1985); c) the discriminant validity of both ASCT and AQS by evaluating their independence from the assessment of children's temperament. Twenty children (8 females) aged 3 to 5 (M = 4,6; s.d. = 0,80) and their mothers participated to the research. The results support the validity of the AQS but not that one of the ASCT.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
