Experiences in Close Relationships.
ECR
- What it measures
- Adult romantic/close-relationship attachment on two dimensions: Attachment Anxiety (fear of abandonment) and Attachment Avoidance (discomfort with closeness/dependence)
- Length and format
- 36 (18 anxiety + 18 avoidance). 7-point (strongly disagree to strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Very many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, NL, IT, ZH, PT, RU and dozens more
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Brennan, K. A., Clark, C. L., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Self-report measurement of adult romantic attachment. In Attachment Theory and Close Relationships (pp. 46-76). Guilford. (https://labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/measures/)
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