{"id":7233,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adult_attachment_interview_-aai\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:39","slug":"adult_attachment_interview_-aai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adult_attachment_interview_-aai\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.sunysb.edu\/attachment\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.sunysb.edu\/attachment\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adult Attachment Interview<\/a> was developed and designed by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.sunysb.edu\/attachment\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.sunysb.edu\/attachment\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Main<\/a>&nbsp;and co-workers to measure individual differences in representations of attachment figures in adults. &nbsp;Four patterns of attachment experience are covered in narratives: dismissing (rejected or neglected by parents during childhood; predictive of anxious-avoidant infant attachments), autonomous (supportive parents and a strong value placed on attachment; predictive of secure infant attachments), preoccupied (reversal of caregiving roles during childhood; predictive of anxious-resistant attachments), and unresolved (feel responsible for some loss or trauma suffered during childhood, and still grieving). &nbsp;The AAI not only probes past experiences, but also current thoughts and feelings about attachment. &nbsp;All told, the AII is meant to provide a measure of effective parenting, with wide-ranging implications for how the changing family is studied and possibly counselled or treated.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attachment\">Attachment<\/a>, <a href=\"attachment_theory\">Attachment theory<\/a>, <a href=\"social_attachment\">Social attachment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adult Attachment Interview was developed and designed by&nbsp;Mary Main&nbsp;and co-workers to measure individual differences in representations of attachment figures in adults. &nbsp;Four patterns of attachment experience are covered in narratives: dismissing (rejected or neglected by parents during childhood; predictive of anxious-avoidant infant attachments), autonomous (supportive parents and a strong value placed on attachment; predictive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/adult_attachment_interview_-aai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}