AAI

• WHO CREATED THE AAI?

  Main
• WHAT IS THE AAI?

  adult attachment interview
• EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS ASKED IN THE AAI?

  • when you were upset as a child what would you do?
  • did you ever feel rejected as a young child?
• WHAT HAPPENED ONCE ALL THE DATA WAS GATHERED IN THE AAI?

  participants were assigned to one of four attachment categories
• WHAT WERE THE FOUR ADULT ATTACHMENT CATEGORIES?

  • secure
  • insecure dismissing
  • insecure preoccupied
  • insecure unresolved
• WHAT WERE SECURE ADULTS LIKE IN THE AAI?

  • autonomous
  • freely provide coherent information
  • memories are clear and vivid
• WHAT WERE INSECURE DISMISSING ADULTS LIKE IN THE AAI?

  • brief information
  • make contradictions
• WHAT WERE INSECURE PREOCCUPIED ADULTS LIKE IN THE AAI?

  • excessively long answers
  • irrelevant information
  • sometimes showed anger/ passivity/ fear
• WHAT WERE INSECURE UNRESOLVED ADULTS LIKE IN THE AAI?

  confused

  -> for example, thought a dead person was still alive/ killed by a childhood thought
• WHAT TWO ADULT ATTACHMENT TYPES USUALLY CAME HAND IN HAND WITH A PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION?

  insecure preoccupied/ insecure unresolved