The Assessment of Adult Attachment: A critical review on the sequence of the application of the Adult Attachment Scale-R (AAS-R) to the Portuguese population

Abstract

This article, in this first part, tries to gather knowledge about some of the conceptual issues in adult attachmnet. These conceptual issues are discussed in terms of the adult attachment assessment and also some of the most polemical aspects on methodology are also highlighted. Finally, focusing on the assessment of adult attachment through self-report questionnaires, some psychometric data and results of Portuguese studies concerning the adaptation of Adul Attachment Scale-R (Collins & Read, 1990), named “Escala de Vinculação do Adulto” (EVA) are presented.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v20i1.381