Resources
Further Reading:
- George, C., & West, M. (1999). Developmental vs. social personality models of adult attachment and mental ill health. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 72, 285-303.
- George, C., West, M., & Pettem, O. (1999). The Adult Attachment Projective: Disorganization of adult attachment at the level of representation. In Solomon, J., & George, C. (Eds.), Attachment disorganization (pp. 462-507). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
- George, C. & West, M. (2001). The development and preliminary validation of a new measure of adult attachment: The Adult Attachment Projective. Attachment and Human Development, 3, 30-61.
- George, C., & West, M. (2003). The Adult Attachment Projective: Measuring individual differences in attachment security using projective methodology. In Hilsenroth, M. J. (Ed.). Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment: Vol. 2. Personality assessment. M. Hersen (Editor-in-Chief of volume series) New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Research using the AAP:
- Aikins et al. (2009). Attachment stability and the emergence of unresolved representations during adolescence. Attachment and Human Development, 11, 491-512.
- Beliveau, M.-J., & Moss, E. (2005). Validation du projectif de l’attachement adulte (AAP): Contribution aux validites convergente et divergente du projectif de l’attachment adulte. Revue Internationale de l’Education Familiale, 9, 29-50.
- Benoit et al. (2009). Emotion regulation strategies as mediators of the association between level of attachment security and PTSD symptoms following trauma in adulthood. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 23, 101-118.
- Buchheim, Erk, George et al. (2006). Measuring attachment representation in an fMRI environment: A pilot study. Psychopathology, 39, 144-152.
- Buchheim et al. (2008). Neural correlates of attachment trauma in borderline personality disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 163, 223-235.
- Buchheim et al. (2009). Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 1417-1422.
- Isaacs et al. (2009). Utilizing attachment measures in child custody evaluations: Incremental validity. Journal of Child Custody, 6, 1-24.
- Kissgen et al. (2009). Attachment representation in mothers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Psychopathology, 42, 201-208.
- Subic-Wrana et al. (2007). Connections between unresolved attachment trauma and retrospectively remembered childhood traumatisation in psychosomatic inpatients. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 399.
- van Ecke et al. (2005). Immigrants and attachment status: Research findings with Dutch and Belgian immigrants in California. Social Behavior and Personality, 33, 657-674.
- van Ecke, Y. (2007). Unresolved attachment among immigrants: An analysis using the Adult Attachment Projective. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 167, 433-442.
- Webster et al. (2009). The association of unresolved attachment status and cognitive processes in maltreated adolescents. Child Abuse Review, 18, 6-23.
- Webster, L. & Hackett, R. (2007). A comparison of unresolved versus resolved status and its relationship to behaviour in maltreated adolescents. School Psychology International, 28, 365-378.
- West, M., & George, C. (2002). Attachment and dysthymia: The contributions of preoccupied attachment and agency of self to depression in women. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 278-293.
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