ICPR Abstracts: Session 40

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Session 40: Workshop

Four-Category Model of Adult Attachment:
Measurement Issues, Prototype Descriptions, and Other 
Tidbits

Organizer:
Elaine Scharfe
Simon Fraser University

Kim Bartholomew
Antonia Henderson
Shanna Trinke
Rebecca Cobb
Jennifer Poole
Lois Callander
Shawnda Servello

In this workshop, we will discuss the measurement of 
adult attachment using Bartholomew's four-category model 
(Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991).  The two self-report 
measures commonly used in our work will be described.  
We will address the conceptual and statistical problems 
with self-report categorical data, the advantages of 
continuous over categorical self-report methods, and the 
advantages of multiple methods of assessment.  We will 
also discuss our interview assessment of adult attachment 
and outline the advantages and disadvantages of using an 
interview assessment of attachment.  Finally, workshop 
participants will have the opportunity to discuss the 
prototypic characteristics of the four attachment patterns in 
small working groups.