Expanding the Notion of a Secure Base- Which Factors Contribute to a Child's Potential for Exploration?

我的研究项目的首要目标是了解幼儿探索环境的背景，以及环境中的不同因素如何促进或阻碍探索行为。我将研究关系、发展和更广泛的环境因素，如社会经济地位，如何通过生物体现机制影响儿童。为此，我将测量这些因素与生物应激反应系统功能之间的关系，以及这与探索行为之间的关系。这有可能更全面地了解各种因素如何有助于建立一个安全的基础，最重要的是，了解儿童能够探索的条件。

The overarching aim of my research project is to understand the context in which young children explore their environment, and how different factors in their environment might facilitate or impede exploratory behaviour. I will look at how relational, developmental, and wider environmental factors such as socioeconomic status affect children through the mechanism of biological embodiment. To do this, I will be measuring the relationship between these factors and biological stress-response system functioning, and how this might relate to exploratory behaviour. This has the potential to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how various factors might contribute to a secure base and, most importantly, to understand the conditions under which children are able to explore.