Development and Validation of the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1)

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dc.contributor.authorVergara, Rodrigo C.
dc.contributor.authorHernandez, Cristobal
dc.contributor.authorJaume-Guazzini, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorLindenberg, Siegwart
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Richard A.
dc.contributor.authorIJzerman, Hans
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T19:59:01Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T19:59:01Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAttachment theory was built around the idea that infants rely on others to survive, and it is often forgotten that survival hinged on coping with environmental demands. Adult attachment reports have instead been organized around people's subjective experience of safety and security in relationships. To resolve the gap between infant's physical needs and adult attachment experiences, we made a first step by developing the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1) in 12 countries (N = 1510), providing a complementary measure to identify biological drives formative to attachment. We conjectured that co-regulatory patterns of temperature and stress are foundational to attachment styles and on this basis used a naive bootstrapping method to find a robust solution, conducting seven exploratory factor analyses in an exploratory-confirmatory fashion. We identified 23 (out of 57) items in 4 subscales: Social Thermoregulation (Total Omega = .83), High Temperature Sensitivity (.83), Solitary Thermoregulation (.77), and Risk Avoidance (.57). In terms of external validity, we also found that the STRAQ-1 relates to emotion regulation strategies broadly and, importantly, relates to individual differences in attachment specifically, which in turn mediates the relationship with stress and health (making the scale face valid). Our approach provides a robust first effort in identifying biological mechanisms underlying attachment formation.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.5334/irsp.222
dc.identifier.issn2397-8570
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.222
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/100768
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000508375800001
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaInternational review of social psychology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectPersonality
dc.subjectSocial Thermoregulation
dc.subjectAttachment Theory
dc.subjectNaive Bootstrapping
dc.subjectScale Development
dc.subjectExploratory-Confirmatory Analyses
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.titleDevelopment and Validation of the Social Thermoregulation and Risk Avoidance Questionnaire (STRAQ-1)
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen32
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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