THE PERSONALITY-RESEARCH FORM AS A DISCRIMINATOR OF ATTACHMENT STYLES

The authors conducted an investigation to determine whether personalit y needs as measured by the Personality Research Form (PRF) discriminat e between four types of attachment styles measured by the Relationship Questionnaire (Re). Roe (1957) theorized a relationship between paren tal attitudes and the satisfaction of needs in children. Bowlby (1969) theorized that parent/child interactions influence the development of the child's personality. We thought that a relationship must exist be tween personality and attachment style. Eighty-four volunteers from un dergraduate psychology classes served as participants in the study. Th ey completed Form E of the PRF, as well as the Re. Data were analyzed via stepwise discriminant analysis. Significant F-statistics (p = .05) were obtained for 21 of 22 steps of the analysis. A classification ma trix was performed at each step. The most efficacious classification o ccurred at step 2, This step resulted in 47.6% of the participants bei ng correctly classified, based upon the PRF variables affiliation and cognitive structure.