期刊名称：International journal of education and applied sciences
印刷版ISSN：2345-6728
电子版ISSN：2345-6728
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：26
语种：English
出版社：Azarin Mehr Press
摘要：Abstract One of the most influential and current theories that opened new windows towards the horizon of theorizing and psychotherapy is attachment theory that was developed out of works by Bowlby and Ainsworth. From the very beginning, one of the most important controversial issues in this theory was measuring and evaluating the styles of attachment and the active internal patterns underlying them. Ainsworth took the first steps in this regard and introduced a three-level system and later a four-level system through her own creative method which was known as �Strange Situation Test�. After this, many researchers tried measuring the attachment styles in infants and older ages. Among these works, mostly the tendency was towards devising tests to determine patterns of attachment in adults which led to the emergence of interviews and questionnaires such as AAI, AHQ, AAQ, CRI, and etc.; of course it is worth noting that none of the mentioned measures is specifically devised for the adolescence. Among the limited instruments which measure attachment in adolescence The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment-Revised (IPPA-R) and Parental Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ) can merely measures the quality of the attachment relationship and none of them follows the categorization offered by Ainsworth or Main and his colleagues. Present study, was conducted on 380 high school students from Mashhad by employing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) utilizing principal components method. Finding reveals that three factors were extracted which were similar to categories described by Ainsworth; then, the validity of instrument was indicated through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Finally, the AASQ which includes 23 items and high internal consistency coefficients is presented. Keywords:Adolescent Attachment Styles Questionnaire, attachment styles, validity, reliability
