ArticleChild development2019
Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure.
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- Intergenerational transmission of attachment: The role of intelligence.JCPP advances · 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
- Secure base and mental health in children: a narrative review.Translational pediatrics · 2024Review
- A Learning Theory Approach to Attachment Theory: Exploring Clinical Applications.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Disorganized attachment behaviors in infancy as predictors of brain morphology and peer rejection in late childhood.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Attachment Stories in Middle Childhood: Reliability and Validity of Clinical and Nonclinical Children's Narratives in a Structured Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Reactive attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: the role of Secure Base Script knowledge.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Current Perspectives on the Management of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Early Education.Psychology research and behavior management · 2020Review
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Abstract
Taxometric investigation of scripted attachment representations in lateadolescence and adulthood suggests that variations in secure base script knowledge consist of differences in degree (dimensional latent structure) rather than differences in kind (categorical latent structure). However, the latent structure of secure base script knowledge in younger cohorts has gone unexplored. This study presents a downward extension of prior taxometric work using the middle childhood version of the Attachment Script Assessment in a cross-sectional sample of 639 normative-risk children (age 8 to 13 years; M = 10.77, SD = 1.06). Results suggest that secure base script knowledge in middle childhood is categorically distributed. Taxometric curves revealed three distinct taxa, highlighting discontinuity in the latent structure of scripted attachment representations across development.
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