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Experiences in Close Relationships Scales

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Synonyms

Experience in Close Relationships (ECR); Experiences in Close Relationships – Relationship Structures (ECR-RS); Experiences in Close Relationships – Revised (ECR-R)

Definition

The Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) and its revised version Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) are 36-item questionnaires on adult romantic attachment style, comprising two scales assessing attachment anxiety and avoidance.

Introduction

Attachment theory (Bowlby 1988) is currently recognized as a dominant theoretical perspective on emotional development and close relationships across the life span. The introduction of self-report measures of adult attachment to the fields of social and personality psychology gave a big boost to recognition of the value of attachment theory in research on affective relationships between adults. Numerous self-report questionnaires to measure adult attachment were published during the 1990s, following on from Hazan and Shaver’s (1987) pioneering...

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  1. Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza, University of Rome, Roma, RM, Italy

    Giulio Cesare Zavattini & Alessandra Busonera

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Zavattini, G.C., Busonera, A. (2020). Experiences in Close Relationships Scales. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_814

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