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Method
Participants
Twenty-seven undergraduate students at a northeastern university,
who had been administered the AAI in a separate research project, were
contacted by phone or e-mail and recruited for the present study. Participants
in the earlier study had been recruited from a research participation pool of
introductory psychology students (n = 25) and from students responding
to flyers posted on campus bulletin boards who were paid for their time
(n = 37). That study had found no differences in RF between participants
as a function of recruitment strategy (Morrison 2010).
For the present study, those participants were recontacted after a mini-
mum of two months had elapsed since AAI administration; elapsed time
between interviews ranged from 2.5 to 10.6 months (M = 6.4, SD = 2.7).
Participants were recruited by phone or e-mail and were paid fifteen dollars
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Measures
Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, and Main 1985).
The Adult Attachment Interview is a semistructured clinical interview
designed to elicit thoughts, feelings, and memories about early attachment
experiences and to assess the individual’s state of mind or internal
working models concerning early attachment relationships. The interview
consists of twenty questions asking individuals to describe their childhood
relationships with their parents. For each parent or attachment figure,
participants are asked to spontaneously generate a list of five adjectives
to describe the relationship and to support these descriptors with specific
memories. Participants are also asked about attachment-related events,
such as how their parents responded when they were upset, injured, or
sick as children. Interviewers ask about memories of separations, loss,
experiences of rejection, and times when they might have felt threatened,
including, but not limited to, physical and sexual abuse. The interview
requires that participants reflect on their parents’ styles of parenting, and
that they consider how their childhood experiences with their parents
have influenced their lives. The administration time of this interview
across many studies ranges from 45 to 90 minutes. The interviews were
administered, audiotaped, and transcribed in accordance with a procedure
developed by Main and colleagues.
Brief Reflective Function Interview (BRFI; Rudden, Milrod, and
Target 2005). The BRFI is a brief semistructured interview that, unlike the
AAI, asks participants to reflect on their relationship with only one parent
(or other attachment figure), of their own choosing, and to consider how
their childhood experiences with this parent have influenced their lives. Its
eleven questions ask participants to reflect on their childhood relationship
with the parent. The interview questions specifically prompt for reflection
about attachment relationships, with less focus than the AAI on eliciting
attachment-related episodic memories. Interviewers also ask participants
to describe someone important in their current life in order to capture their
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R e s u lt s
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Discussion
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The overall results of this study indicate that the BRFI may present
a valid, reliable, and streamlined alternative to the AAI as a measure for
coding RF, an alternative that would confer advantages in a variety of
research designs. The BRFI is not only more quickly administered, but
more quickly transcribed and coded as well. By substituting the BRFI for
the AAI, researchers may avoid the bottlenecking that tends to occur at
the transcription and coding phases. The briefer interview would also
reduce the cost of transcribing and coding and ultimately would allow
researchers to produce results more efficiently and cost-effectively. This
is particularly true for research designs geared toward measuring change
in RF with treatment and mediator analyses, which require multiple
assessments of each participant.
L i m i tat i o n s a n d F u t u r e D i r e c t i o n s
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Kevin B. Meehan
Department of Psychology
Long Island University
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
E-mail: kevin.meehan@liu.edu
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