Department of Educational Sciences, University of Genoa, 16128 Genoa, Italy.
Center for Attachment Research, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Aug 11;20(16):6562. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20166562.
The Friends and Family Interview (FFI) is assumed to be a valid method to study attachment stability and attachment-related psychopathological processes in adolescence, but no studies have yet tested the test-retest reliability of this interview or the longitudinal association of attachment patterns in response to the FFI from adolescents with symptoms such as psychotic-like experiences (e.g., hallucinations, bizarre behavior, dissociation, self-harm) that are known to have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study involved 102 community adolescents ( = 14.64, = 1.63, 46% males) assessed twice: during a severe COVID-19-related lockdown (in Italy) (T1) and four months later (T2). Measures were the FFI (assessing attachment patterns: secure-autonomous, insecure-dismissing, insecure-preoccupied, and insecure-disorganized) and the thought problems scale of the Youth Self-Report to assess psychotic-like symptoms. revealed high stability of four-way attachment classifications over four months (93.5%), with a modest yet significant link between higher disorganization at T1 and higher scores of thought problems at T2, = 0.010. : The FFI shows high test-retest reliability and can be a valid, age-adapted option to assess adolescents' attachment. Attachment disorganization should be further investigated as possibly related to psychotic-like experiences in community adolescents.
朋友和家人访谈（FFI）被认为是一种研究青少年依恋稳定性和与依恋相关的心理病理过程的有效方法，但尚无研究测试过该访谈的重测信度，也没有研究测试过青少年对 FFI 的依恋模式与纵向关联，而青少年的一些症状（如类精神病体验，例如幻觉、怪异行为、解离、自残）在 COVID-19 大流行期间已知会增加。这项研究涉及 102 名社区青少年（=14.64，=1.63，46%为男性），在两次评估中进行：在意大利严重的 COVID-19 相关封锁期间（T1）和四个月后（T2）。测量工具是 FFI（评估依恋模式：安全自主型、不安全回避型、不安全专注型和不安全混乱型）和青少年自我报告中的思维问题量表，以评估类精神病症状。结果显示，四种依恋分类在四个月内具有很高的稳定性（93.5%），T1 时的更高混乱程度与 T2 时的思维问题得分更高之间存在适度但显著的关联，r=0.010。结论：FFI 具有很高的重测信度，可以作为评估青少年依恋的有效、适合年龄的选择。依恋混乱程度应进一步研究，可能与社区青少年的类精神病体验有关。
