Abstract
Bowlby’s Attachment Theory proposes that the person seeks protection and security with his or her caregiver, establishing a significant bond, which Bowlby characterizes as “attachment relationship”. The relationship with God can also be understood as an attachment relationship. Until now, there are no instruments in Brazil to measure one’s attachment to God. The purpose of this article is to present the adaptation and validation process of the Attachment to God Inventory for the Brazilian context, resulting in a Brazilian version of the Attachment to God Inventory (IAD-Br). The validation methodology for the IAD-Br consisted of Portuguese translation, reverse translation to English, pre-test, data collection, and validation through confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA). A total of 470 people participated in the study: 179 men and 291 women. Confirmatory factorial analysis presented unsatisfactory statistical parameters. Of the 28 items of the instrument, 11 items did not present adequate Item-Total Correlation. After excluding these 11 items, the instrument presented adequate adjustment indices. The IAD-Br, composed of 17 items, is able to be used to measure attachment to God in Brazil and constitutes a relevant instrument to identify the attachment to God style, being useful for application in the psychotherapeutic clinic and in contexts of spiritual care.
Highlights
In researching the links between young children and their caregivers, the British psychiatristBowlby (2002, 2004a, 2004b) structured what has come to be called the Attachment Theory, providing a solid conceptual basis on the formation, maintenance, and modification of affective bonds.Unlike the classic Freudian psychoanalysis perspective, which emphasizes the exploration of the fantasy world of adults and children, Bowlby directs his attention to real experiences and the real world of people
He deals with the impact of parents’ emotional problems on children (Bowlby 1988, pp. 43–44). He himself states that he distances himself from classical psychoanalysis and, in his most recent works, presents an approach based on the principles of cognitive psychology (Bowlby 2004a, p. 37)
The adaptation and adaptation of the Attachment to God Inventory (AGI) to the Brazilian context, hereinafter called the Inventário de Apego a Deus—Brazilian Version (IAD-Br), was carried out according to the methodological and descriptive method, following the procedures of translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation, which are applicable to measuring instruments used in social sciences (Reichenheim and Moraes 2007)
Summary
Unlike the classic Freudian psychoanalysis perspective, which emphasizes the exploration of the fantasy world of adults and children, Bowlby directs his attention to real experiences and the real world of people. He deals with the impact of parents’ emotional problems on children For Bowlby, “attachment behavior is interpreted as any form of behavior that results in a person attaining or retaining proximity to some other differentiated and preferred individual” “attachment behavior leads to the development of bonds or attachments”
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