Attachment representations in school-age children: the development of the child attachment interview (CAI).

This paper introduces a new measure of attachment in middle childhood (8 - 13 years), an interview extensively adapted from the AAI and with a new coding system. We report data from a series of studies with clinical and normal populations, in which the psychometric properties of reliability, stability and validity are tested and found to be satisfactory. Although work remains to be done, we see the Child Attachment Interview as a promising new attachment measure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]