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Adult Attachment and Developmental Personality Styles: An Empirical Study
Author(s) -
Sherry Alissa,
Lyddon William J.,
Henson Robin K.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2007.tb00482.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attachment theory , personality , millon clinical multiaxial inventory , personality assessment inventory , developmental psychology , personality test , clinical psychology , psychometrics , personality disorders , social psychology , test validity
The current study was designed to test specific hypotheses associated with W. J. Lyddon and A. Sherry's (2001) attachment theory model of developmental personality styles. More specifically, 4 adult attachment dimensions were correlated with 10 personality scales on the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory‐III (T. Millon, R. Davis, & C. Millon, 1997) with a sample of 273 men and women. Findings indicated that the adult attachment dimensions were able to predict 7 of the 10 personality styles.