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The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups
| dc.contributor.author | Vaughn, Brian E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coppola, Gabrielle | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veríssimo, Manuela | |
| dc.contributor.author | Monteiro, Lígia Maria Santos | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, António José | |
| dc.contributor.author | Posada, German | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carbonell, Olga A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Plata, Sandra J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Waters, Harriet S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bost, Kelly K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | McBride, Brent | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shin, Nana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Korth, Bryan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-04T12:16:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-02-04T12:16:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31(1), 65-76 | por |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1464-0651 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1211 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development | por |
| dc.subject | Attachment script representation task | por |
| dc.subject | Secure base relationships | por |
| dc.title | The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Utrecht | por |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 76 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 65 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | International Journal of Behavioral Development | por |
| rcaap.rights | restrictedAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |