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The Development of the Questionnaire of Marital Attachment for Older Adults

ZHAI Xiao-yan1, LI Chun-hua2, Wei Hong3, WANG Da-hua1   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. State's Key Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    3. Institute of Higher Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2010-03-15 Published:2010-03-15

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Abstract: To develop a questionnairem easuring the marital attachment style for older people,items from 18 existent and widely used questionna ires were colected together as the item source.A fter the in itial screening by pilot study, 85 items were identified as the primary items of the questionna ire.And then 434 older people aged from 60 to 88 years old completed this 85-item measurement. Among the participants,222 were male and 212 were female.With item analysis and exploratory factor analysis,18 items were identified as good representative of the questionna ire. Factory analysis ind icated that the final 18-item scale comprised three sub-scales,namely security,anxiety and avoidance.The reliab ility and validity were examined respectively and showed that the questionnaire had satisfactory psychometric features.The distribution of attachment style among older adults was explored tentatively with the sample.With discrim inative analysis,all the participants could be categorized into three types of attachment styles,i.e.secure attachment with the highest ratio,anxious at achment and refusal attachment with the lowest ratio.

Key words: older adults, marital attachment, attachment style

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  • 844.3
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