University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Fam Process. 2024 Mar;63(1):348-363. doi: 10.1111/famp.12866. Epub 2023 Feb 5.
There is an abundance of research examining disorganized attachment in childhood. However, few researchers have worked to advance the study of disorganized attachment in the context of emerging adult romantic relationships. As such, consistent and clear measurement of this attachment dimension is lacking. In the current study, emerging adult college students (N = 318) completed two previously designed self-report measures for assessing adult disorganized attachment in the context of romantic relationships. The two scales were compared in a factor analytic framework to create a single cohesive measure of romantic disorganized attachment, which captures the unique features of disorganized attachment, including fear, distrust and suspicion of attachment figures, as well as odd and disoriented behaviors. The result was a 15-item measure, which showed good reliability and factorial validity, and was moderately related to existing measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance. Additionally, the new measure demonstrated good test-retest reliability in a follow-up (n = 52). Finally, path analysis was used to provide evidence that disorganized attachment mediates the relation of childhood maltreatment to difficulties in emotion regulation, above what is captured by anxious and avoidant attachment. The current findings suggest the revised measure is a reliable self-report measure of disorganized adult romantic attachment to be used to further the study of disorganized attachment in emerging adulthood.
目前已有大量研究探讨了儿童期的依恋失调问题。然而，很少有研究致力于在成年初期的浪漫关系背景下推进对依恋失调的研究。因此，该依恋维度的一致且清晰的测量方法仍然缺乏。在本研究中，成年初期的大学生（N=318）完成了两项先前设计的自我报告措施，用于评估浪漫关系背景下的成人依恋失调。在因子分析框架中对这两个量表进行了比较，以创建一个单一的、有凝聚力的浪漫依恋失调衡量标准，该标准捕捉了依恋失调的独特特征，包括对依恋对象的恐惧、不信任和怀疑，以及奇怪和迷失方向的行为。结果是一个包含 15 个项目的衡量标准，它表现出良好的可靠性和因子有效性，并且与现有的依恋焦虑和回避测量方法中度相关。此外，新的衡量标准在后续的（n=52）研究中表现出了良好的重测信度。最后，路径分析提供了证据表明，依恋失调在儿童期虐待与情绪调节困难之间的关系中起中介作用，这超出了焦虑和回避依恋所捕捉到的作用。目前的研究结果表明，经过修订的衡量标准是一种可靠的、用于自我报告的成人浪漫依恋失调的衡量标准，可以用于进一步研究成年初期的依恋失调。
