Adult interview exploring early role of attachment

• Psychologists developed way to try to scientifically asses relationship between early childhood attachment and later adult attachments
• Adult attachment interview based off idea that childhood attachment doesn't matter for adults
• Main et al adult attachment interview

  Semi-structured involving series of questions about childhood attachment relationships and how they influenced later later relationships
• Main et al adult attachment interview

  Interviewee asked to give 5 adjectives explaining the relationship with each parent. Asked to explain why they chose those adjectives.
• Main et al adult attachment interview

  Results classified by trained coders into categories:

  Secure, dismissing, preoccupied, unresolved