Rutgers Anna H, Van Ijzendoorn Marinus H, Bakermans-Kranenburg Marian J, Swinkels Sophie H N
Leiden University,The Netherlands.
Autism. 2007 Mar;11(2):187-200. doi: 10.1177/1362361307075713.
Children with autism are able to show secure attachment behaviours to their parents/caregivers. Most studies on attachment in children with autism used a (modified) Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to examine attachment security. An advantage of the Attachment Q-Sort (AQS) over the SSP is that it can be attuned to the secure-base behaviour of children from special populations. In this study experts in the field of autism (both clinicians and researchers: N = 59) defined an AQS criterion sort for children with autism and tested its content validity. Separate criterion sorts were defined for the social subtypes aloof and active-but-odd, but the two criterion sorts could be combined into one AQS criterion sort for children with autism. It is concluded that with minor amendments the original Attachment Q-Sort is applicable in observing the attachment behaviour of children with autism.
患有自闭症的儿童能够对其父母/照顾者表现出安全型依恋行为。大多数关于自闭症儿童依恋的研究使用（改良的）陌生情境程序（SSP）来检验依恋安全性。依恋Q分类法（AQS）相对于SSP的一个优势在于，它可以适应特殊群体儿童的安全基地行为。在本研究中，自闭症领域的专家（包括临床医生和研究人员：N = 59）为自闭症儿童定义了一种AQS标准分类，并测试了其内容效度。为冷漠型和活跃但怪异型这两种社会亚型分别定义了标准分类，但这两种标准分类可以合并为一种自闭症儿童的AQS标准分类。研究得出结论，只需进行少量修改，原始的依恋Q分类法就适用于观察自闭症儿童的依恋行为。
