Evidências de validade do experience in close relationships (ECR) inventory para o Brasil

Shiramizu, Victor Kenji Medeiros and Natividade, Jean Carlos and Lopes, Fívia de Araújo (2013) Evidências de validade do experience in close relationships (ECR) inventory para o Brasil. Estudos de Psicologia, 18 (3). pp. 457-465. ISSN 1678-4669 (https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-294X2013000300006)

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Abstract

Instruments that assess adult attachment are based on the notion that patterns of bonding established in early childhood transpose to romantic relationships in adult life. The aim of this research was to seek validity evidences of an instrument to assess adult attachment, translated and adapted to Brazil: Experience in Close Relationships Inventory (ECR). Two consecutive studies were performed. In the first the ECR was translated and responded by 230 college students. From the results, items were changed and the scale was responded by 618 people from five regions of Brazil. The results indicated a two-dimensional structure to ECR-Brazil, attachment-related anxiety and avoidance, as well as appropriate indices of reliability. Correlations in line with the theory have been found among the two-dimensional construct, levels of love and sociosexuality. The instrument also differentiated people in committed and non-committed relationship. We consider that ECR-Brazil showed satisfactory evidence of validity and reliability.

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