However, most researchers use the W - DEQ version
B without examining its
factor structure because they consider that the psychometric structure of version A and
B is homogenous (
fear, lack of anticipation, isolation and riskiness) due to the items being identical [1][11].
For instance, parental stress seems to be associated to both anxiety and avoidance of attachment, because of the difficulties they imply in coping with distress, but in different ways: more avoidant women attribute negative distress to a characteristic of the baby and not situational
factors; more anxious women make more mistakes in recognizing
fear and attribute distress to physical
factors, then they could show an out of sync response to the babies» distress signs (Leerkes and Siepak, 2006; for a complete review of a social cognition approach to parenting processes and behaviors, see: Jones et al., 2015a,
b).