Attachment Stability and Longitudinal Prediction of Psychotic-like Symptoms in Community Adolescents over Four Months of COVID-19 Pandemic

Background: The Friends and Family Interview (FFI) is assumed to be a valid method study attachment stability attachment-related psychopathological processes in adolescence, but no studies have yet tested the test–retest reliability of this interview or longitudinal association patterns response FFI from adolescents with symptoms such as psychotic-like experiences (e.g., hallucinations, bizarre behavior, dissociation, self-harm) that are known increased during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This involved 102 community (M = 14.64, SD 1.63, 46% males) assessed twice: severe COVID-19-related lockdown (in Italy) (T1) four months later (T2). Measures were (assessing patterns: secure-autonomous, insecure-dismissing, insecure-preoccupied, insecure-disorganized) thought problems scale Youth Self-Report assess symptoms. Results: revealed high four-way classifications over (93.5%), modest significant link between higher disorganization at T1 scores T2, p 0.010. Conclusions: shows can valid, age-adapted option adolescents’ attachment. Attachment should further investigated possibly related adolescents.