Attachment and the processing of social information across the life span: theory and evidence.

MJ Dykas, J Cassidy - Psychological bulletin, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers have used J. Bowlby's (1969/1982, 1973, 1980, 1988) attachment theory
frequently as a basis for examining whether experiences in close personal relationships …

The secure base script concept: An overview

TEA Waters, GI Roisman - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Attachment representations in adulthood take the form of a cognitive
script.•Secure base script knowledge develops based on the quality of early caregiving.•The …

[PDF][PDF] Measurement of individual differences in adolescent and adult attachment

JA Crowell, RC Fraley, PR Shaver - Handbook of attachment …, 1999 - researchgate.net
Attachment theory is a lifespan developmental theory. According to Bowlby (1969/1982),
human attachments play a “vital role... from the cradle to the grave”(p. 208). Ainsworth …

[PDF][PDF] The measurement of attachment security and related constructs in infancy and early childhood

J Solomon, C George - Handbook of attachment: Theory …, 2008 - researchgate.net
THE MEASUREMENT OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND Page 1 1 THE MEASUREMENT
OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS IN INFANCY AND EARLY …

Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge: a comparative analysis of young adult attachment representations.

RD Steele, TEA Waters, KK Bost… - Developmental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Based on a subsample (N= 673) of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth
Development (SECCYD) cohort, this article reports data from a follow-up assessment at age …

Narrative assessment of attachment representations: Links between secure base scripts and adolescent attachment

MJ Dykas, SS Woodhouse, J Cassidy… - Attachment & Human …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
We explored the notion that adolescents possess mental secure base scripts of attachment-
related events and examined, for the first time, whether these scripts were linked to …

Maternal secure base scripts, children's attachment security, and mother–child narrative styles

KK Bost, N Shin, BA Mcbride, GL Brown… - Attachment & Human …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports the results of a study examining links between maternal representations
of attachment, child attachment security, and mother and child narrative styles assessed in …

Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of …

TEA Waters, G Bosmans, E Vandevivere… - Developmental …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Adult attachment representations and the quality of romantic and parent–child relationships: An examination of the contributions of coherence of discourse and secure …

TEA Waters, KL Raby, SK Ruiz, J Martin… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Attachment theory suggests that early experiences with caregivers are carried forward
across development in the form of mental representations of attachment experiences …

Measuring scripted attachment-related knowledge in middle childhood: The Secure Base Script Test

E Psouni, A Apetroaia - Attachment & human development, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Secure base scripts (SBS) are thought of as the earliest, rudimentary mental representations
of attachment, comprising temporally and causally related events occurring in interactions …