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    The Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) is a psychological instrument created by Collins and Read in 1990 and adapted by Tacon and Caldera in 2001 to measure attachment styles in adulthood. It consists of 18 items grouped into three subscales: dependence, anxiety and intimacy. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores on the subscales allow three attachment styles to be identified: secure, avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent. The adaptation

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    The Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) is a psychological instrument created by Collins and Read in 1990 and adapted by Tacon and Caldera in 2001 to measure attachment styles in adulthood. It consists of 18 items grouped into three subscales: dependence, anxiety and intimacy. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores on the subscales allow three attachment styles to be identified: secure, avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent. The adaptation

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    The Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) is a psychological instrument created by Collins and Read in 1990 and adapted by Tacon and Caldera in 2001 to measure attachment styles in adulthood. It consists of 18 items grouped into three subscales: dependence, anxiety and intimacy. Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. The scores on the subscales allow three attachment styles to be identified: secure, avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent. The adaptation

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    ADULT ATTACHMENT SCALE (AAS)

    Collins and Read, 1990


    Adapted by Tacon & Caldera (2001)

    Age: ___________________Sex: Male (__________) Female (_______) Civil status: _________

    Please read each sentence and select the option in the left column that best describes how you
    characterize your feelings by circling it.

    1 2 3 4 5
    Not something Very
    Uncharacteristic Neutral
    characteristic characteristic characteristic

    1 It's hard for me to depend on other people 1 2 3 4 5


    2 People are never there when I need them 1 2 3 4 5
    3 I feel good depending on others 1 2 3 4 5
    4 I know other people will be there when I need them. 1 2 3 4 5
    5 It is difficult for me to completely trust other people 1 2 3 4 5
    6 I'm not sure I can always count on others when I need them. 1 2 3 4 5
    7 I'm not too worried about being abandoned 1 2 3 4 5
    8 I often worry that my partner doesn't really love me. 1 2 3 4 5
    9 Sometimes it seems to me that other people don't like to get close to me as 1 2 3 4 5
    much as I would like to get close to myself.
    10 I often worry about whether my partner will want to stay with me. 1 2 3 4 5
    11 I would like to get involved with someone 1 2 3 4 5
    12 1 2 3 4 5
    My desire to fully engage with people sometimes pushes them away from me.
    13 It is relatively easy for me to approach others 1 2 3 4 5
    14 I generally don't worry about someone getting too close to me. 1 2 3 4 5
    15 In one way or another it makes me uncomfortable to be around others. 1 2 3 4 5
    16 I feel nervous when someone gets too close 1 2 3 4 5
    17 I feel comfortable having someone else depending on me 1 2 3 4 5
    18 1 2 3 4 5
    My partners often ask me to be more intimate than I feel comfortable with.
    Adult Attachment Scale (AAS)

    The Adult Attachment Scale was created by Collins and Read (1990) according to Hazan
    and Shaver's criteria, which defines adult attachment styles functionally equivalent to the
    three types of early childhood attachment. Instrument that was adapted by Tacon and
    Caldera (2001) in a sample of young Mexicans. Which is made up of 18 items and divided
    into three subscales or dimensions: Dependency (degree to which one can trust and depend
    on others), Anxiety (fear of being abandoned and not loved) and Intimacy (degree to which
    a person feels comfortable with closeness and intimacy), with five Likert-type scale
    response options:

    1 = Not characteristic
    2 = Uncharacteristic
    3 = Neutral
    4 = Something characteristic
    5 = Very characteristic

    The dependence dimension is made up of the items: 1*, 2*, 3, 4, 5*, 6*. The second anxiety
    dimension includes the items: 7*, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Finally, the third intimacy dimension
    groups the items: 13, 14, 15*, 16, 17, 18*. Those marked with an asterisk are invested based
    on the value of the options, which are five.

    When the scores of the dependency and intimacy dimensions are higher than the scores of
    the anxiety dimension, we speak of a secure attachment style; When the scores of the three
    dimensions are lower, we speak of an avoidant attachment style, and finally when the scores
    of the anxiety dimension are higher than the scores of the dependency and intimacy
    dimensions, we speak of an attachment style. anxious ambivalent.

    Tacón and Caldera (2001) obtained an internal reliability or alpha of 0.75 in the
    “dependency” dimension, 0.72 in the “anxiety” dimension and 0.69 in the “intimacy”
    dimension.

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