ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Childhood abuse and neglect are prospectively associated with scripted attachment representations in young adulthood.
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- Caregiving Quality Across Development and Secure Base Knowledge among Adolescents with a History of Institutional Care.Adversity and resilience science · 2025Article
- Insights into child abuse and neglect: Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation.Development and psychopathology · 2024Review
- Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving-related early adversity.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Article
- 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
- 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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Abstract
Waters, Ruiz, and Roisman (2017) recently published evidence based on the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA) that sensitive caregiving during childhood is associated with higher levels of secure base script knowledge during the Adult Attachment Interview (AAIsbs). At present, however, little is known about the role of variation in atypical caregiving, including abuse and/or neglect, in explaining individual differences in AAIsbs. This study revisited data from the MLSRA (N = 157) to examine the association between experiencing abuse and/or neglect in the first 17.5 years of life and secure base script knowledge measured at ages 19 and 26 years. Several aspects of abuse and/or neglect experiences were assessed, including perpetrator identity, timing, and type. Regressions revealed that childhood abuse and/or neglect was robustly associated with lower AAIsbs scores in young adulthood, above and beyond previously documented associations with maternal sensitivity and demographic covariates. Follow-up analyses provided evidence that the predictive significance of abuse for secure base script knowledge was specific to perpetration by parental figures, rather than non-caregivers. Exploratory analyses indicated that abuse and/or neglect: (a) in middle childhood and adolescence (but not infancy and early childhood) and (b) physical abuse (but not sexual abuse or neglect) were uniquely associated with lower AAIsbs scores.
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