Does adult attachment style scale capture unconscious information processing process?

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380840
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University of Education
• Principal Investigator: TODA Koji 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60207579)
• Research Collaborator: KOMURA Kentaro 弘前大学, 人文社会科学部, 講師 ; MURAKAMI Tatsuya 高知工科大学, 共通教育教室, 講師
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: アタッチメント / 内的作業モデル / 愛着スタイル尺度 / 潜在的指標 / アダルト・アタッチメント・インタビュー / 妥当性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Adult attachment style scale has been used in order to assess one’s internal working model in many studies. However, it is sometimes suspected whether unconscious information processing in one’s internal working model is reflected in pencil and paper questionnaires or not. In this study, we tried to validate the adult attachment style scale in following three ways: Examine the relationship between adult attachment style scale and 1)implicit measures, 2)other several adult attachment style scales, 3)adult attachment interview(DMM-AAI). Results shows that the patterns of relationship between the scale and other variables is consistent with the attachment theory and the validity of the scale is confirmed.

Free Research Field

社会心理学