Identificador: TDX:3400
Autores: Ferré Rey, Gisela
Resumen:
ohn Bowlby was the first author to develop an attachment theory, and Mary Ainsworth was the first author to propose a procedure to assess the quality of attachment. Based on Ainsworth's evaluations, this author proposed three main attachment styles in childhood: secure attachment, avoidant insecure attachment, and ambivalent insecure attachment.
Various authors argue that in adulthood there would be a correspondence with these three childhood attachment styles thanks to internal working models, which are developed from the moment we are born from experiences related to attachment. These internal working models tend to be stable, but can be modified.
However, there is no consensus on whether the evaluation of adult attachment styles should be approached from a categorical or dimensional approach. Bartholomew and Horowitz (1991) proposed to combine the categorical approach with the dimensional one, to evaluate attachment more precisely. Starting from this more global vision, one of the objectives of this thesis is to determine which attachment styles allows differentiating the Adult Attachment Questionnaire (CAA, Melero & Cantero, 2008) using the Factor Analysis of Mixtures (AFM). Also, I wanted to see the relationship between the profiles of subjects evaluated by the CAA with parental bonding, cognitive-emotional strategies, intelligence, personality and psychological maturity. The results suggest that the CAA questionnaire makes it possible to differentiate between two attachment profiles, and not between four profiles, as the authors of the questionnaire had proposed. In general, these two profiles present the expected pattern of relationships with variables such as personality traits, type of parental bonding, cognitive-emotional strategies, and psychological maturity. However, the results suggest that adult attachment is not related to intelligence.
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