ArticleDevelopmental psychology2015
The latent structure of secure base script knowledge.
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- Longitudinal Associations Between Scripted Attachment Representations in Late Adolescence and Depression in Adulthood in a Normative and a Higher-Risk Cohort.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2025Article
- Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?Attachment & human development · 2021Article
- Early Child Care Experiences and Attachment Representations at Age 18 Years: Evidence from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.Developmental psychology · 2021Article
- A Variational Approach to Scripts.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Reactive attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: the role of Secure Base Script knowledge.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure.Child development · 2019Article
- Attachment to Mother and Father at Transition to Middle Childhood.Journal of child and family studies · 2017Article
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Adolescents: Can Attachment Theory Contribute to Its Efficacy?Clinical child and family psychology review · 2016Review
- Multiple domains of parental secure base support during childhood and adolescence contribute to adolescents' representations of attachment as a secure base script.Attachment & human development · 2016Article
- Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.Developmental psychology · 2015Article
- Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge: a comparative analysis of young adult attachment representations.Developmental psychology · 2014Article
- Caregiving Antecedents of Secure Base Script Knowledge Inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A Comparative, Pre-Registered Analysis.Infant and child developmentArticle
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There is increasing evidence that attachment representations abstracted from childhood experiences with primary caregivers are organized as a cognitive script describing secure base use and support (i.e., the secure base script). To date, however, the latent structure of secure base script knowledge has gone unexamined-this despite that such basic information about the factor structure and distributional properties of these individual differences has important conceptual implications for our understanding of how representations of early experience are organized and generalized, as well as methodological significance in relation to maximizing statistical power and precision. In this study, we report factor and taxometric analyses that examined the latent structure of secure base script knowledge in 2 large samples. Results suggested that variation in secure base script knowledge-as measured by both the adolescent (N = 674) and adult (N = 714) versions of the Attachment Script Assessment-is generalized across relationships and continuously distributed.
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