Our Measures
Thank you for your interest in the Connect Attachment Programs and our research measures.
Our measures are for RESEARCH USE ONLY. To request permission to access and use the full version of one of our measures, you must complete the form below, agree to the conditions of use, and submit it by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
Approval for Use of Adolescent Health Lab Measures Application
For clinicians interested in using a screening version of one of the scales, they will be available as a component of the Brief Child and Family Interview (BCFPI), which will soon be released. For more information, email youth_project@sfu.ca
The Affect Regulation Checklist
The Affect Regulation Checklist (©ARC; Moretti, 2003) is a 12-item measure adapted from published scales of emotion regulation (Gross & John, 2003; Shields & Cicchetti, 1995) and augmented with supplementary items to tap three aspects of affect regulation in adolescents. In keeping with contemporary models, the ARC is based on a multidimensional view of emotion regulation that includes both maladaptive (e.g., lack of control, suppression) and adaptive (reflection) aspects of regulation. Furthermore, the ARC assesses regulatory characteristics independent of specific emotions. Items do not refer to specific emotions and avoid confounding regulatory processes with emotional states.
The ARC yields three factors: affect control, affect suppression, and adaptive reflection. Each subscale consists of four items which are scored on a 3-point scale ranging from “not like me” to “a lot like me” and ask about experiences of affect in general. Results from confirmatory factor analyses supported a 3-factor solution for the ARC, CFI =.96, RMSEA = .059.
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Additional Readings:
Goulter, N., Balanji, S., Davis, B. A., James, T., McIntyre, C. L., Smith, E., Thornton, E. M., Craig, S. G., & Moretti, M. M. (2023). Psychometric Evaluation of the Affect Regulation Checklist: Clinical and Community Samples, Parent-Reports and Youth Self-Reports. Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 33(1), 344–360. Click Here
Penney, S., & Moretti, M. M. (2010). The roles of affect dysregulation and deficient affect in youth violence. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(6), 709-731. Click Here
Affect Regulation Checklist – Italian Translation
An Italian translation was completed by Drs. Nicola Carone and Lavinia Barone, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italia. For permission to use the full Italian translation, you must submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
Traduzione italiana a cura di Nicola Carone e Lavinia Barone, Laboratorio di psicologia dell’Attaccamento e sostegno alla Genitorialità (LAG), Dipartimento di Scienze del Sistema Nervoso e del Comportamento, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italia.
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Affect Regulation Checklist – Hindi Translation
Hindi translation was completed by Rajesh Kumar, a PhD Scholar in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. For permission to use the full Hindi translation, you need to submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
Affect Regulation Checklist – Spanish Translation
A Spanish translation was completed by Dr. Julia Gallegos Guajardo, a PhD Scholar in the Psychology Department at the Universidad de Monterrey. For permission to use the full Spanish translation, you need to submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
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The Adolescent Attachment Anxiety & Avoidance Inventory - Long Form
The Adolescent Attachment Anxiety & Avoidance Inventory (AAAAI) – Long Form (Moretti et al., 2015) is a 36-item measure of adolescent-parent attachment, originally developed for clinical and empirical purposes at the Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The measure draws items from Brennan, Clark, and Shaver’s (1996, 1998) Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) scale, which was adapted for use with adolescents and with reference to their relationships with their parents or primary caregivers. Each statement on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 ”Strongly Disagree” to 7 “Strongly Agree”.
Consistent with the ECR and other self-report measures of attachment, two super-ordinate factors tapping attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance have been confirmed (Steiger, 2003, 2008). The measure possesses strong psychometric properties; the factor structure and convergent validity of the AAAAI have been supported in previous research (Moretti et al., 2015; Steiger, 2003, 2008; Steiger & Moretti, 2005).
Please note this measure was previously called the CAPAI or APAI but is now the AAAAI-LF (36-item version) and AAAAI-SF (16-item version).
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Additional Readings:
Moretti, M.M., Obsuth, I., Craig, S.G., & Bartolo, T. (2015). An attachment-based intervention for parents of adolescents at risk: Mechanisms of change. Attachment and Human Development, 18, 1-17 Click here
Persram, R. J., & Konishi, C. (2022). Validation of the Adolescent Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance Inventory among Canadian Secondary School Students. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31(10), 2813–2824.
Steiger, A., Moretti, M. M., & Obsuth, I. (2009, March). An examination of complex interactions between parenting and attachment in the prediction of adolescent externalizing behavior. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Steiger, A. (2008). Parenting and Attachment: An Examination of Mediation and Moderation in the Prediction of Adolescent Psychopathology.(Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Steiger, A. R., & Moretti, M. M. (2005, June). Convergent and discriminant validity of the comprehensive adolescent-parent attachment inventory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal.
Steiger, A. (2003). Preliminary Validation of the Comprehensive adolescent-parent attachment inventory. (Unpublished master’s thesis). Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada Click here
The Adolescent Attachment Anxiety & Avoidance Inventory - Short Form
The AAAAI–Short Form is a self-report measure that includes 16 items with the highest factor loadings from the full 36-item measure. It consists of two subscales assessing attachment anxiety (7 items) and attachment avoidance (9 items). Items are scored on a 7-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree to 7=strongly agree). Consistent with the 36-item version of this measure, the two subscales have shown good internal consistency (Bao & Moretti, 2023; Kristen et al., 2023; Pasalich et al., 2022; Vernon & Moretti, 2022).
Additional Readings:
Bao, L., & Moretti, M. M. (2023). eConnect: implementation and preliminary evaluation of a virtually delivered attachment-based parenting intervention during COVID-19. Attachment & human development, 25(2), 272–288. Click Here
Barone, L., Carone, N., Costantino, A., Genschow, J., Merelli, S., Milone, A., Polidori, L., Ruglioni, L., & Moretti, M. M. (2021). Effect of a parenting intervention on decreasing adolescents’ behavioral problems via reduction in attachment insecurity: A longitudinal, multicenter, randomized controlled trial. Journal of Adolescence (London, England.), 91(1), 82–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.07.008
Kristen, A., Salari, R., Moretti, M., & Osman, F. (2023). Attachment and trauma-informed programme to support forcibly displaced parents of youth in Sweden: feasibility and preliminary outcomes of the eConnect Online programme. BMJ open, 13(8), e072368.
Pasalich, D. S., Craig, S. G., Goulter, N., O'Donnell, K. A., Sierra Hernandez, C., & Moretti, M. M. (2022). Patterns and Predictors of Different Youth Responses to Attachment-Based Parent Intervention. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(5), 796–809. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2021.1923022
Vernon, J. R. G., & Moretti, M. M. (2022). Parent Emotion Regulation, Mindful Parenting, and Youth Attachment: Direct and Indirect Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Problems. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. Click Here
The Adolescent Attachment Anxiety & Avoidance Inventory – Spanish Translation
A Spanish translation was completed by Dr. Julia Gallegos Guajardo, a PhD Scholar in the Psychology Department at the Universidad de Monterrey. For permission to use the full Spanish translation, you need to submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
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The Sadness and Anger Rumination Inventory
The Sadness and Anger Rumination Inventory (SARI; Peled & Moretti, 2007) taps rumination on anger and sadness, using analogous items for the two forms of rumination. The SARI consists of 11 items for each form of rumination, with the words angry and anger in the anger rumination measure replaced with sad and sadness in the sadness rumination measure. Participants indicate on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (Never) to 5 (Always) how often they engage in activities described by each item, when they are angry (anger rumination measure) or sad (sadness rumination measure). The SARI has demonstrated good reliability and validity (Peled & Moretti, 2007; 2010).
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The Sadness and Anger Rumination Inventory - Italian Translation
Italian translation was completed by Marco Innamorati, PsyD. and Claudio Imperatori, MPsy., at the Università Europea di Roma, Rome, Italy. For permission to use the full Italian translation, you need to submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca
The Sadness and Anger Rumination Inventory - Portugese Translation
Portuguese translation was completed by Mariana Silvestre, M.A. Candidate, at the Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. For permission to use the full Portuguese translation, you need to submit your request by email to youth_project@sfu.ca