An adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised for use with children and adolescents
Open accessAbstract
The investigation of attachment processes during middle childhood and early adolescence has been hampered by a relative lack of measures for this age group differentiating between two fundamental attachment dimensions, that is, anxiety and avoidance. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a child version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised (referred to as the ECR-RC), a self-report questionnaire measuring attachment anxiety and avoidance. Two studies were conducted to examine the internal structure (Study 1, N = 514 and Study 2, N = 296) and construct and predictive validity (Study 2) of the ECR-RC. The ECR-RC appears to be a promising instrument to measure the two attachment dimensions in middle childhood and early adolescence.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Wilkinson and Brenning et al. modified the ECR-R for use with adolescents, but no validated German version is available.
“Wilkinson [62] and Brenning et al. [63] modified the ECR-R for use with adolescents but, for the time being, no validated German version is available.”
From Get secure soon: attachment in abused adolescents and young adults before and after trauma-focused cognitive processing therapy. (2021) · cites this paper as [63]
The Present Studies and Measure sections describe Brenning et al.’s adaptation of the ECR-R for children and early adolescents. The Limitations section identifies the sample as Dutch-speaking, but the paper does not establish that no validated German version was available; that part of the sentence is unsupported by this source. No page numbers are provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 70 · Cited by 148
Research works printed but not linked: 2
- Green, J., & Goldwyn, R. (2002). Attachment disorganization and psychopathology: New findings in attachment research and their potential implications for developmental psychopathology in childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43, 835-846.
- Rholes, W. S., Simpson, J. A., Campbell, L., & Grich, J. (2001). Adult attachment and the transition to parenthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 421-435. Measuring attachment from middle childhood
- Authors
- Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Brenning, Katrijn
- Venue
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-03-23
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1048-1072
- ISSN
- 0265-4075 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3608
- OpenAlex
- W2063641464
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 8.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- biblio.ugent.be
- Locations
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, attachment dimensions, middle childhood, early adolescence, self-report questionnaire, scale adaptation, construct validity, predictive validity, internal structure
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
