Spanish Validation of The Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Questionnaire for Pre-adolescents

  1. Maite Larrucea-Iruretagoyena 1
  2. Izaskun Orue 1
  1. 1 University of Deusto, Spain
Revista:
Revista de Psicología Clínica con Niños y Adolescentes

ISSN: 2340-8340

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 9

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

El objetivo principal del presente estudio fue validar la versión española del cuestionario The Experiences in Close Relationships–Relationship Structures questionnaire (ECR–RS; Fraley et al., 2011). A través de este instrumento se mide la estructura dimensional del apego (ansiedad y evitación) hacia distintos dominios relacionales (madre, padre y amistades). La muestra la formaron 795 preadolescentes (49,1% chicas) de entre 9 y 14 años (M=12,86; DT=1,28), quienes fueron seleccionados al azar de siete colegios vizcaínos. Los participantes completaron medidas sobre el apego, comportamiento prosocial, problemas emocionales y comportamentales, y dificultades en regulación emocional. El análisis factorial confirmatorio mostró que la adaptación española del ECR–RS sigue la estructura original de dos factores y se mantiene invariante con respecto al género. Las dos dimensiones del apego se asociaron de manera positiva con problemas emocionales y comportamentales, y dificultades en regulación emocional, y de forma negativa con comportamiento prosocial. Se encontraron diferencias de género en los dominios de amistades, madre y medida global, donde los chicos obtuvieron puntuaciones más altas que las chicas en ansiedad y las chicas más altas que los chicos en evitación. La adaptación española del ECR–RS para preadolescentes es un instrumento fiable y válido para medir el apego ansioso y evitativo hacia diferentes dominios relacionales

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