This section provides a brief introduction to the Relationship Questionnaire (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) and the Relationship Scales Questionnaire (Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994). Readers are advised to conduct a review of the relevant literature in order to thoroughly acquaint themselves with the concept of adult attachment and the wide array of measures available to assess adult attachments in close relationships (see, for example, Phil Shaver´s attachment web page).
We want to emphasize that research papers testing the validity of the model do not rely on these self-report measures. Specifically, validation results in Bartholomew & Horowitz (1991) relied on ratings obtained from the Peer Attachment Interview (PAI). Further, validation of the attachment dimensions (Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994) are based on multiple measures of attachment including interview measures.
