SOCIAL COMPETENCE, PERSONALITY AND ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLE IN A PORTUGUESE SAMPLE

The aim of the present study was to examine the correlates of adult at tachment style, measured using a Portuguese translation of the paragra phs proposed by Hazan and Shaver (1987). University students (N = 138) responded to this measure. to the Social Competence Questionnaire(Com Q) and to the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI). Percentages found f or each attachment style were similar to those found by other authors. Secure participants scored higher in social competence. In the EPI, t he anxious/ambivalent group was higher in neuroticism, whereas the avo idants leaned toward introversion. Differences in correlations among s ocial competence and personality scales were also found in different a ttachment styles. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.