Attachment
What closeness costs you, and what distance does to you.
- Questions
- 18
- 4 min
- Two-dimensional attachment (anxiety × avoidance)
What this is
The two-dimensional model of adult attachment is the public part and is what these original items are written against; the ECR-R itself is Fraley, Waller and Brennan's and is not reproduced here. Both dimensions are scored on their own 1–100, and the four familiar style names are quadrants of that plane rather than categories a person belongs to.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedTwo-dimensional attachment (anxiety × avoidance)
Adult attachment is read on two dimensions, anxiety and avoidance, following Brennan, Clark and Shaver (1998) and Fraley, Waller and Brennan (2000). That structure is public; the ECR-R's own items belong to their authors and are not used here.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Brennan, K. A., Clark, C. L., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Self-report measurement of adult attachment: An integrative overview (opens in a new tab). In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 46–76). New York: Guilford Pressoriginal source
- Fraley, R. C., Waller, N. G., & Brennan, K. A. (2000). An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of adult attachment (opens in a new tab). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 350–365original source
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.