Revised Version of the Relationship Structure Questionnaire for Intimate Relationship Experience – Chinese Version

Description

This document presents a framework for assessing attachment-related avoidance and anxiety across different interpersonal relationships, including aspects related to one’s mother, father, partner, and friend. It provides a scoring method based on a Likert scale questionnaire.

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Purpose

The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate attachment orientations in close relationships across different relational domains, helping to understand individual differences in attachment styles.

Test Year

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Administration Method and Scoring

Participants rate their agreement with various statements using a Likert scale:
七点评分 (Seven-point Scale): 非常不同意 (Strongly Disagree), 很不同意 (Disagree), 稍不同意 (Somewhat Disagree), 说不清 (Unsure), 稍微同意 (Somewhat Agree), 很同意 (Agree), 非常同意 (Strongly Agree).

Scores are calculated as follows:
– The avoidance score is computed by averaging items 1 to 6, with items 1, 2, 3, and 4 reverse keyed.
– The anxiety score is computed by averaging items 7 to 9.

Reliability and Validity

The reliability and validity of this assessment have been referenced from established literature in attachment theory.

Factors and Subscales

The questionnaire includes two main subscales:
1. Attachment-related Avoidance
2. Attachment-related Anxiety

Keywords

Attachment, Avoidance, Anxiety, Close Relationships, Interpersonal Relationships

Items in Chinese

1. 当我遇到问题求助于他／她，总能得到帮助
2. 我通常与他/她讨论我的问题与困扰
3. 我愿意与他／她商量事
4. 我发现我很容易依赖他／她
5. 对这个人敞开心扉令我感到不舒服
6. 我不愿意将内心深处的感受告诉他／她
7. 我经常担心他／她不是真的在乎我
8. 我害怕他／她会抛弃我
9. 我担心他／她并不像我在乎他／她那样在乎我

Items in English

1. When I have a problem and ask him/her for help, I always receive assistance.
2. I usually discuss my issues and concerns with him/her.
3. I am willing to consult with him/her about things.
4. I find it easy to rely on him/her.
5. Opening up to this person makes me feel uncomfortable.
6. I am unwilling to share my innermost feelings with him/her.
7. I often worry that he/she does not truly care about me.
8. I fear that he/she will abandon me.
9. I worry that he/she does not care about me as much as I care about him/her.

References

Fraley R C, Heffernan M E, Vicary A M, et al. The Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures questionnaire: a method for assessing attachment: orientations across relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011, 23(3):615.
Instructions used for each relationship domain:
A. Please answer the following questions about your mother or a mother-like figure.
B. Please answer the following questions about your father or a father-like figure.
C. Please answer the following questions about your dating or marital partner. Note: If you are not currently in a dating or marital relationship with someone, answer these questions with respect to a former partner or a relationship that you would like to have with someone.
D. Please answer the following questions about your best friend.
Questionnaire items: Two scores, one for attachment-related avoidance and the other for attachment-related anxiety, should be computed for each interpersonal target (i.e., mother, father, partner, friend). The avoidance score can be computed by averaging items 1 – 6, while reverse keying items 1, 2, 3, and 4. The anxiety score can be computed by averaging items 7 – 9. These two scores should be computed separately for each relationship target.
Update on Global/General Attachment – August 2014. We have recently begun supplementing the ECR-RS with an item set that is designed to more explicitly probe people’s general attachment styles. We did not want our general measure to be a literal linear combination of the relationship-specific measures because that operation made it difficult to study how general and relationship-specific representations may change together. The instructions we are currently using to assess “general” or “global” attachment are as follows: “Please read each of the following statements and rate the extent to which you believe each statement best describes your feelings about close relationships in general.” We then follow those instructions with 9 items that are similar in theme to those used to assess relationship-specific attachment. (Moreover, they are keyed in a similar way. The first 6 items tap avoidance with the first 4 items reverse keyed; the last 3 items tap anxiety.)
Source: http://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/measures/relstructures.htm