V. MATERNAL SENSITIVITY AND CO-CONSTRUCTION SKILLS: CONCURRENT AND LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH PRESCHOOLERS’ SECURE BASE BEHAVIOR

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Lu ◽  
Germán E. Posada ◽  
Jill M. Trumbell ◽  
Laura Anaya
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Sensitivity ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

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.

From maternal sensitivity in infancy to adult attachment representations: a longitudinal adoption study with secure base scripts

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Schoenmaker ◽  
Femmie Juffer ◽  
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn ◽  
Mariëlle Linting ◽  
Anja van der Voort ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Maternal Sensitivity ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Adoption Study ◽  
Secure Base Scripts

Maternal Sensitivity and Child Secure Base Use in Early Childhood: Studies in Different Cultural Contexts

2015 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
German Posada ◽  
Jill Trumbell ◽  
Magaly Noblega ◽  
Sandra Plata ◽  
Paola Peña ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Maternal Sensitivity ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Cultural Contexts

Longitudinal associations between schematic attachment representations in late adolescence and depressive symptoms in adulthood in normative- and high-risk cohorts: A preregistration protocol

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Or Dagan ◽  
Marissa D Nivison ◽  
Glenn I. Roisman ◽  
Theodore Waters
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Early Care ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

A core premise of attachment theory is that the quality of early care shapes the development and consolidation of later constructed mental representations, which in turn influence mental health (Bowlby, 1973, 1980; Sroufe et al., 2005). Following this premise, this set of pre-registered analyses aims to build on a programmatic line of research (Dagan et al., 2018; Dagan et al., 2020) to investigate the predictive significance of attachment representations in general, and scripted attachment representations (i.e., secure base script knowledge) more specifically, on depressive symptoms in adulthood.

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