Construction of a digital instrument for the evaluation of attachment in children from 9 to 12 years old

RICHAUD DE MINZI, C. , LEMOS, V., & VARGAS RUBILAR, J.; RICHAUD DE MINZI, C. , LEMOS, V., & VARGAS RUBILAR, J.

Montreal

Congreso; XXIX International Congress of Applied Psychology,; 2018

Between 4-9 years, the most used methodology to explore the internal models of attachment has been the representational approach by incomplete stories. From the age of 9, this procedure begins to be unattractive. Objective: To build an instrument of incomplete stories in digital game format, more friendly for older children. In this modality, the characters are presented in two dimensions and their movement is synchronized with a narration of the story made by a "standard" voice. Once the story is over, the child is invited by the software to finalize it. The audio and video are recorded by a webcam. The results of the administration of categorical and dimensional questionnaires and of the representational technique to 30 children, 9-12 years, converge in the same diagnosis, although the representational approach allows a greater precision in the analysis of the different aspects of the primary bond. Therefore the new instrument has shown satisfactory convergent validity with other types of techniques, and reliability among judges with respect to children evaluation and the scoring system, based on qualitative aspects such as mentalization, narrative coherence, etc