ArticleDevelopmental psychology2015
Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.
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- Increasing secure base script knowledge among parents with Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up.Development and psychopathology · 2021Trial
- Perceived Paternal Acceptance-Rejection, Self-Perception, and Peer Victimization in Preadolescents with and Without Special Educational Needs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Heritability of children's Secure Base Script Knowledge in middle childhood: a twin study with the Attachment Script Assessment.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- 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
- Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving-related early adversity.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Mothers' Attachment Representations and Children's Brain Structure.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Configurations of Adult Attachment, Indicators of Mental Health and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Childhood abuse and neglect are prospectively associated with scripted attachment representations in young adulthood.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?Attachment & human development · 2021Article
- State Attachment Variability: Between- and within-Person Level Associations with Trait Attachment and Psychological Problems.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Children's Attention to Mother and Adolescent Stress Moderate the Attachment-Depressive Symptoms Link.Psychologica Belgica · 2020Article
- Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure.Child development · 2019Article
- Adult attachment representations and the quality of romantic and parent-child relationships: An examination of the contributions of coherence of discourse and secure base script knowledge.Developmental psychology · 2018Article
- Assessing Attachment Representations in Adolescents: Discriminant Validation of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System.Child psychiatry and human development · 2017Article
- Origins of Secure Base Script Knowledge and the Developmental Construction of Attachment Representations.Child development · 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
- Attachment in middle childhood: predictors, correlates, and implications for adaptation.Attachment & human development · 2016Observational
- The latent structure of secure base script knowledge.Developmental psychology · 2015Article
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Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. This work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in the middle childhood period. We present 2 studies and provide 3 critical pieces of evidence regarding the presence of a script-like representation of the attachment relationship in middle childhood. We present evidence that a middle childhood attachment script assessment tapped a stable underlying script using samples drawn from 2 western cultures, the United States (Study 1) and Belgium (Study 2). We also found evidence suggestive of the intergenerational transmission of secure base script knowledge (Study 1) and relations between secure base script knowledge and symptoms of psychopathology in middle childhood (Study 2). The results from this investigation represent an important downward extension of the secure base script construct.
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