State Adult Attachment Measure.
SAAM
- What it measures
- Momentary (state) adult attachment on 3 subscales: Security, Anxiety, and Avoidance; captures temporary fluctuations in attachment feelings
- Length and format
- 21 (7 Security + 7 Anxiety + 7 Avoidance). 7-point (1 disagree strongly - 7 agree strongly), state-focused ('right now') (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Used cross-culturally; several translations
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Gillath, O., Hart, J., Noftle, E. E., & Stockdale, G. D. (2009). Development and validation of a state adult attachment measure (SAAM). Journal of Research in Personality, 43(3), 362-373.
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