adult attachment

Adult Attachment

Relationship & Attachment

Adult Attachment
Secure  7 items
Preoccupied  6 items
Fearful  6 items
 
The following are statements about you in relation to others. Instructions: Please circle the response that best describes your relationships. . NOTE: THE RATING SCALE HAS CHANGED as follows: 1=Strongly Disagree‚ 7=Strongly Agree‚ and 9=Donít Know.

1. I find others are reluctant to get as close as I would like.
2. I am not sure that I can always depend on others to be there when I need them.
3. Sometimes people do not want to get close to me because I want so much to be close to them.
4. I find it difficult to allow myself to depend on others.
5. I am nervous when anyone gets too close.

6. I am uncomfortable being without close relationships‚ but I sometimes worry that others do not value me as much as I value them.

7. I worry that I will be hurt if I allow myself to become too close to others.
8. I want emotionally close relationships‚ but I find it difficult to trust others completely.
9. I am comfortable depending on others.
10. I often want to get closer to others than they want to get to me.
11. People are never there when you need them.
12. I know that others will be there when I need them.
13. I find it difficult to trust others completely.
14. I do not often worry about someone getting too close to me.
15. I do not often worry about other people letting me down.

16. I want to be completely emotionally intimate with others‚ but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like.

17. I find it relatively easy to get close to others.
18. My desire to merge sometimes scares people away.
19. I am somewhat uncomfortable being close to others.

Bartholomew‚ K.‚ & Horowitz‚ L. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology‚ 61(2)‚ 226-244.

 

Cite this article

mohammad looti (2026). Adult Attachment. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/adult-attachment/

mohammad looti. "Adult Attachment." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 24 Apr. 2026, https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/adult-attachment/.

mohammad looti. "Adult Attachment." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 2026. https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/adult-attachment/.

mohammad looti (2026) 'Adult Attachment', PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Available at: https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/adult-attachment/.

[1] mohammad looti, "Adult Attachment," PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, vol. X, no. Y, ص Z-Z, April, 2026.

mohammad looti. Adult Attachment. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. 2026;vol(issue):pages.

Related terms:

  1. Adult Attachment Scale AAS
  2. Adult Attachment Scale- Revised
  3. Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA)
  4. Attachment Styles Scale
  5. Attachment Style Measure
  6. Attachment Style Classification Questionnaire for Latency Age Children
  7. Parental-Child Attachment—Rochester Youth Development Study
  8. Measure of Attachment Qualities
  9. Parental Attachment Scale (PAS)
  10. Psychological Attachment Instrument
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