A Avalia？？o da Vincula？？o do Adulto: uma revis？o crítica a propósito da aplica？？o da Adult Attachment Scale-R (AAS-R) na popula？？o Portuguesa

this article, in its first part, tries to gather knowledge about some of the conceptual issues on adult attachment. these conceptual issues are discussed in terms of the adult attachment assessment and also some of the most polemical aspects on methodology are also highlighted. finally, focusing on the assessment of adult attachment through self-？report ques-tionnaires, some psychometric data and results of portuguese studies concerning the adaptation of adult attachment scale-？r (collins & read, 1990), named ？es-cala de vincula？？o do adulto？ (eva) are presented.