Citation

Crawford TN, Shaver PR, Cohen P, Pilkonis PA, Gillath O, Kasen S. J. Personal. Disord. 2006; 20(4): 331-351.

Affiliation

Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY, USA. crawfor@pi.cpmc.columbia.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Guilford Publications)

DOI

10.1521/pedi.2006.20.4.331

PMID

16901258

Abstract

Anxious and avoidant attachment were assessed in the Children in the Community (CIC) Study during adolescence and adulthood using self-report scales developed for this prospective study. The convergent and discriminant validity of the new CIC attachment scales were evaluated and their stability was assessed across a 17-year interval. Attachment scales predicted DSM-IV personality disorders in theoretically coherent and clinically meaningful ways, especially when supplemented with a separate measure of interpersonal aggression. Cluster B and C personality disorder symptoms were associated with elevated anxious attachment. Avoidant attachment was positively associated with Cluster A symptoms and inversely associated with Cluster B and C symptoms. Interpersonal aggression was higher in Cluster B symptoms and lower in Cluster C symptoms, thus differentiating between these symptom clusters.

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