Adult Attachment Interview Alternative Schemas: Qualitative Analysis of 1,592 Narratives

A thematic analysis of 1,592 Adult Attachment Interview narratives conducted by seven trained coders identified novel and amended relational schemas. The dataset likely contains coded themes from interviews probing childhood memories of caregiver relationships, loss, threat, and separation. It was authored by Shannon Maingot and last updated on 2026-05-26.

Use Cases

• Analyze alternative relational schemas based on themes like Favoritism, Incompetent, and Restrictive.
• Study the organization of relational expectations around vigilance, distress, or self-reliance.
• Investigate cognitive structures of caregiving relationships under conditions of relational adversity.

Strengths

• Analysis based on a corpus of 1,592 Adult Attachment Interviews.
• Thematic analysis conducted by seven trained coders.
• Identifies three novel themes and amendments to three existing schemas.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is 5.5 KB, indicating a very limited scope likely containing summary codes rather than raw interview data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Qualitative systematic examination of a large, risk-diverse corpus of Adult Attachment Interviews from 14 studies.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 17:41:11; freshness should be verified.