TY - JOUR
T1 - Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge
T2 - A comparative analysis of young adult attachment representations
AU - Steele, Ryan D.
AU - Waters, Theodore E.A.
AU - Bost, Kelly K.
AU - Vaughn, Brian E.
AU - Truitt, Warren
AU - Waters, Harriet S.
AU - Booth-LaForce, Cathryn
AU - Roisman, Glenn I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Based on a subsample (N = 673) of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) cohort, this article reports data from a follow-up assessment at age 18 years on the antecedents of secure base script knowledge, as reflected in the ability to generate narratives in which attachment-related difficulties are recognized, competent help is provided, and the problem is resolved. Secure base script knowledge was (a) modestly to moderately correlated with more well-established assessments of adult attachment, (b) associated with mother-child attachment in the first 3 years of life and with observations of maternal and paternal sensitivity from childhood to adolescence, and (c) partially accounted for associations previously documented in the SECCYD cohort between early caregiving experiences and Adult Attachment Interview states of mind (Booth-LaForce & Roisman, 2014) as well as self-reported attachment styles (Fraley, Roisman, Booth-LaForce, Cox, & Holland, 2013).
AB - Based on a subsample (N = 673) of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) cohort, this article reports data from a follow-up assessment at age 18 years on the antecedents of secure base script knowledge, as reflected in the ability to generate narratives in which attachment-related difficulties are recognized, competent help is provided, and the problem is resolved. Secure base script knowledge was (a) modestly to moderately correlated with more well-established assessments of adult attachment, (b) associated with mother-child attachment in the first 3 years of life and with observations of maternal and paternal sensitivity from childhood to adolescence, and (c) partially accounted for associations previously documented in the SECCYD cohort between early caregiving experiences and Adult Attachment Interview states of mind (Booth-LaForce & Roisman, 2014) as well as self-reported attachment styles (Fraley, Roisman, Booth-LaForce, Cox, & Holland, 2013).
KW - Attachment
KW - Attachment Script Assessment
KW - Longitudinal methodology
KW - Representations
KW - Secure base script knowledge
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U2 - 10.1037/a0037992
DO - 10.1037/a0037992
M3 - Article
C2 - 25264703
AN - SCOPUS:84925662188
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 50
SP - 2526
EP - 2538
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 11
ER -