Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.
Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.
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确保两种西方文化中童年中期的基本表征:与父母依恋表征和母亲行为问题报告的关联。
DOI:
10.1037/a0039375
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发表时间:
2015
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4
通讯作者:
Waters,HarrietS
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作者:
Waters,TheodoreEA;Bosmans,Guy;Vandevivere,Eva;Dujardin,Adinda;Waters,HarrietS
Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. This work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in the middle childhood period. We present 2 studies and provide 3 critical pieces of evidence regarding the presence of a script-like representation of the attachment relationship in middle childhood. We present evidence that a middle childhood attachment script assessment tapped a stable underlying script using samples drawn from 2 western cultures, the United States (Study 1) and Belgium (Study 2). We also found evidence suggestive of the intergenerational transmission of secure base script knowledge (Study 1) and relations between secure base script knowledge and symptoms of psychopathology in middle childhood (Study 2). The results from this investigation represent an important downward extension of the secure base script construct.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)