Adult Attachment Scale (and Revised AAS).

AAS / RAAS

What it measures

Adult attachment on subscales Close, Depend, and Anxiety (AAS); the RAAS reorganizes toward Avoidance (Close+Depend) and Anxiety

Length and format

18 items. 5-point (not at all to very characteristic) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Multiple languages incl. Italian (AAS-R) and others

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Collins, N. L., & Read, S. J. (1990). Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(4), 644-663.