ArticleChild development2017
Origins of Secure Base Script Knowledge and the Developmental Construction of Attachment Representations.
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- Increasing secure base script knowledge among parents with Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up.Development and psychopathology · 2021Trial
- Empirical Evidence for the Developmental Origins of Autonomic Stress Regulation: An Attachment Account.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- How left-behind experience moderates the impact of impulsivity on non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese senior high school students: the mediating role of self-control.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Organizing adult attachment in alternative ways: A qualitative assessment of schemas antithetical to the secure base script.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- Relations among parents' attachment, parenting quality, and autistic and nonautistic children's social-emotional functioning.Attachment & human development · 2025Article
- 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
- Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Review
- Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Secure attachment to caregiver prevents adult depressive symptoms in a sex-dependent manner: A translational study.iScience · 2024Article
- Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving-related early adversity.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Here one time, gone the next: Fluctuations in support received and provided predict changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2023Article
- The predictive significance of fluctuations in early maternal sensitivity for secure base script knowledge and relationship effectiveness in adulthood.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2022Article
- Emotional Availability in Mother-Child and Father-Child Interactions as Predictors of Child's Attachment Representations in Adoptive Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mothers' Attachment Representations and Children's Brain Structure.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife.Attachment & human development · 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
- Childhood abuse and neglect and self-reported symptoms of psychopathology through midlife.Developmental psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Increasing evidence suggests that attachment representations take at least two forms: a secure base script and an autobiographical narrative of childhood caregiving experiences. This study presents data from the first 26 years of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (N = 169), examining the developmental origins of secure base script knowledge in a high-risk sample and testing alternative models of the developmental sequencing of the construction of attachment representations. Results demonstrated that secure base script knowledge was predicted by observations of maternal sensitivity across childhood and adolescence. Furthermore, findings suggest that the construction of a secure base script supports the development of a coherent autobiographical representation of childhood attachment experiences with primary caregivers by early adulthood.
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