Güvenli Yer Senaryolarının Değerlendirilmesinde Oyuncak Öykü Tamamlama Testi’nin Yetişkinlere Uyarlanması: Güvenirlik ve Geçerliğe İlişkin Bir Ön-Çalışma
Adapting Doll Completion Story Task to Adults in the Assessment of Secure Base Scripts: A Preliminary Study of Reliability and Validity

Summary/Abstract: Secure base scripts constitute an approach providing reliable and valid measures of mental representations of attachment. Doll Completion Story Task (DCST) is a common measure in literature, tapping into attachment-related secure base scripts in children. The purpose of the current research was to conduct a preliminary reliability and validity study of Adult-DCST. In the development phase, the protocol was applied to 40 healthy adults and 20 psychiatric inpatients, and “Adult-DCST Application and Scoring Manual” was formed according to the content examinations of Adult-DCST. Following, 20 participants were randomly selected from 60 participant-pool of Adult-DCST applications. Inter-rater reliability and validity examinations were conducted among randomly-selected 20 participants (nhealthy = 9; npsychiatricinnpatient = 11). Participants with the mean age of 22.15 filled out Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ), Experiences in Close Relationships-R (ECR-R), and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Results indicated that inter-rater agreement for Reflective Functioning, Attachment, Anxiety and Avoidance dimensions of Adult-DCST were .83, .89, .79, and .83, respectively. Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficients of mentioned dimensions ranged between .79 and .85. Also, there were significant relationships between AdultDCST dimensions and sub-scales of RSQ and ECR-R, and total scores of RSES in the expected directions. Findings suggested that Adult-DCST was a reliable measure of secure base scripts.

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