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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- Theodore E. A. Waters, Guy Bosmans (UGent) , Eva Vandevivere, Adinda Dujardin (UGent) and Harriet S. Waters
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- 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.
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- SCRIPT KNOWLEDGE, TRANSMISSION GAP, DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT, EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR, INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS, METAANALYSIS, ADOLESCENCE, VALIDITY, SAMPLE, COHERENCE, attachment, secure base script, middle childhood, psychopathology
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-7034731
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- Waters, Theodore E. A., et al. “Secure Base Representations in Middle Childhood across Two Western Cultures : Associations with Parental Attachment Representations and Maternal Reports of Behavior Problems.” DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 51, no. 8, 2015, pp. 1013–25, doi:10.1037/a0039375.
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- Waters, T. E. A., Bosmans, G., Vandevivere, E., Dujardin, A., & Waters, H. S. (2015). Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures : associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 51(8), 1013–1025. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039375
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- Waters, Theodore E. A., Guy Bosmans, Eva Vandevivere, Adinda Dujardin, and Harriet S. Waters. 2015. “Secure Base Representations in Middle Childhood across Two Western Cultures : Associations with Parental Attachment Representations and Maternal Reports of Behavior Problems.” DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 51 (8): 1013–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039375.
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- Waters, Theodore E. A., Guy Bosmans, Eva Vandevivere, Adinda Dujardin, and Harriet S. Waters. 2015. “Secure Base Representations in Middle Childhood across Two Western Cultures : Associations with Parental Attachment Representations and Maternal Reports of Behavior Problems.” DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 51 (8): 1013–1025. doi:10.1037/a0039375.
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- 1.Waters TEA, Bosmans G, Vandevivere E, Dujardin A, Waters HS. Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures : associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2015;51(8):1013–25.
- IEEE
- [1]T. E. A. Waters, G. Bosmans, E. Vandevivere, A. Dujardin, and H. S. Waters, “Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures : associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems,” DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 1013–1025, 2015.
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abstract = {{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.}},
author = {{Waters, Theodore E. A. and Bosmans, Guy and Vandevivere, Eva and Dujardin, Adinda and Waters, Harriet S.}},
issn = {{0012-1649}},
journal = {{DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY}},
keywords = {{SCRIPT KNOWLEDGE,TRANSMISSION GAP,DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT,EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR,INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS,METAANALYSIS,ADOLESCENCE,VALIDITY,SAMPLE,COHERENCE,attachment,secure base script,middle childhood,psychopathology}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{8}},
pages = {{1013--1025}},
title = {{Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures : associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1037/a0039375}},
volume = {{51}},
year = {{2015}},
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