scholarly journals (In)variability of Attachment in Middle Childhood: Secure Base Script Evidence in Diary Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Bosmans ◽  
Magali Van de Walle ◽  
Lien Goossens ◽  
Eva Ceulemans
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Secure Base Script ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Insight Into

Secure attachment is characterised by a secure base script regarding the attachment figure as a source for support. Having such a cognitive script should affect the stability of state attachment. Specifically, incongruent attachment-related information should get assimilated to this secure base script, leading to state attachment scores that hardly fluctuate. For children without a script, state attachment should vary depending on the quality of attachment-related interactions. Two diary studies were carried out in 9- to 13-year-old children. Results suggested that with assimilation: (1) securely attached children fluctuated less in their daily attachment-related appraisals; (2) fluctuations were related to conflicts with mother; (3) this relation was stronger for less securely attached children. Consequently, these studies further support the secure base script hypothesis and provide insight into the interplay of trait and state components of attachment-related appraisals.

scholarly journals Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore E.A. Waters ◽  
Christopher R. Facompré ◽  
Adinda Dujardin ◽  
Magali Van De Walle ◽  
Martine Verhees ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Latent Structure ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Taxometric Analysis ◽  
Secure Base Script

scholarly journals Attachment Disorder Symptoms and Prosocial Behavior in Middle Childhood: The Role of Secure Base Script Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bien Cuyvers ◽  
Noortje Vervoort ◽  
Guy Bosmans
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Attachment Disorder ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Withdrawn Behavior ◽  
Secure Base Script

Abstract Background: Children with attachment disorder show prosocial behavior problems. Prosocial behavior problems are an operationalization of the symptom of inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior in children with attachment disorder symptoms. However, the underlying mechanism between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior problems is still unclear and findings in literature are mixed.Methods: The current study investigated the role of children’s attachment representations in this association. Attachment representations reflect knowledge about a cognitive script regarding the attachment figure as a source for support (Secure Base Script). We tested whether secure base script knowledge 1) mediates or 2) moderates the link between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior problems in 67 children (6-11 years; 83.1% boys) recruited from special education schools for children with behavioral problems. Children completed a pictorial Secure Base Script Test. Their attachment disorder symptoms were assessed during an interview with the primary caregivers. Primary caregivers and teachers filled out a prosocial behavior questionnaire about the child. Results: Results did not support the mediation hypothesis, but evidence for the moderation hypothesis was found. Secure base script knowledge attenuated the negative association between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior.Conclusions: These findings contribute to the discussion about the link between attachment representations and attachment disorders.

scholarly journals Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence: A 3-year longitudinal study.

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 2379-2388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore E. A. Waters ◽  
Christopher R. Facompré ◽  
Magali Van de Walle ◽  
Adinda Dujardin ◽  
Simon De Winter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Secure Base Script

Measuring scripted attachment-related knowledge in middle childhood: the Secure Base Script Test

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Psouni ◽  
Adela Apetroaia
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Secure Base Script

Testing the Incremental Value of a Separate Measure for Secure Attachment Relative to a Measure for Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrijn Brenning ◽  
Bart Soenens ◽  
Caroline Braet
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Incremental Value ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract. Research on attachment in middle childhood and early adolescence has typically relied on either unidimensional measures of attachment security (vs. insecurity) or on differentiated measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance. This study addressed the question whether there is a need to add an explicit measure of security when operationalizing parent-child attachment in terms of anxiety and avoidance. Both dimensional (i.e., regression analyses) and person-centered analyses (i.e., cluster analysis) are used in this study (N = 276, 53% boys, mean age = 10.66) to examine the incremental value of a scale for attachment security (in this study, the Security Scale) in addition to a scale for attachment anxiety and avoidance (in this study, the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised – Child version; ECR-RC). The present results suggest that an assessment of anxious and avoidant attachment (using the ECR-RC) may suffice to capture the quality of parent-child attachment in middle childhood and early adolescence.

Childhood abuse and neglect are prospectively associated with scripted attachment representations in young adulthood

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Marissa D. Nivison ◽  
Christopher R. Facompré ◽  
K. Lee Raby ◽  
Jeffry A. Simpson ◽  
Glenn I. Roisman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Maternal Sensitivity ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Published Evidence ◽  
Secure Base Script

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.

scholarly journals The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E. Vaughn ◽  
Gabrielle Coppola ◽  
Manuela Verissimo ◽  
Ligia Monteiro ◽  
Antonio José Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Word List ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
The Us ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Secure Base Script ◽  
Secure Base Scripts ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
At Home

The secure-base phenomenon is central to the Bowlby/Ainsworth theory of attachment and is also central to the assessment of attachment across the lifespan. The present study tested whether mothers' knowledge about the secure-base phenomenon, as assessed using a recently designed wordlist prompt measure for eliciting attachment-relevant stories, would predict their children's securebase behavior, as assessed by observers in the home and summarized with the Attachment Q-set (AQS). In each of three sociocultural groups (from Colombia, Portugal, and the US), scores characterizing the quality of maternal secure-base narratives elicited using the word-list prompt procedure were internally consistent, as indicated by tests of cross-story reliability, and they were positively and significantly associated with the child's security score from the AQS for each subsample. The correlation in the combined sample was r(129) = .33, p < .001. Subsequent analyses with the combined sample evaluated the AQS item-correlates of the secure-base script score.These analyses showed that mothers whose stories indicate that they have access to and use a positive secure-base script in their story production have children who treat them as a “secure base” at home. These results suggest that a core feature of adult attachment models, in each of the three sociocultural groups studied, is access to a secure-base script. Additional results from the study indicate that cross-language translations of the maternal narratives can receive valid, reliable scores even when evaluated by non-native speakers.

Uzasadnienie voti separati a prawo do sądu. Zależności i gwarancje

2014 ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Mateusz Grochowski
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Insight Into

The text provides an insight into the relation between the formal motives (justifycation) of votum separatum in judicial proceedngs and a right to due process. Because of to the complex axiological and functional character of the motives of judge’s dissent, the interdependence in question is not obvious, nor clear. Weakening the stability and social prestige of the judgment, as well as breaking the confidency of judges’ dispute, the votum separatum (mainly through its motives) contributes simultaneously to improving the overall quality of discourse accompanying application of law. It provides new points of reference that can or ought to be addressed at a few levels – within the grounds of the judgment (against which the dissent has been directed), by the court of higher instance, by other courts, as a „quasi-precedential” ruling, etc. For that reasons, although the separate opinion is not an obviouness for the legal system, introduction of this instrument entails quite automatically a need for a duty to justify it.

scholarly journals 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.

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 2371-2381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore E. A. Waters ◽  
K. Lee Raby ◽  
Sarah K. Ruiz ◽  
Jodi Martin ◽  
Glenn I. Roisman
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Secure Base Script ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child
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