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 …

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 …

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

C Schoenmaker, F Juffer… - Attachment & Human …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We examined whether differences in adult attachment representations could be predicted
from early and later maternal sensitivity, controlling for early and later assessments of …

Maternal secure-base scripts and children's attachment security in an adopted sample

M Veríssimo, F Salvaterra - Attachment & Human Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Studies of families with adopted children are of special interest to attachment theorists
because they afford opportunities to probe assumptions of attachment theory with regard to …

Secure base scripts are associated with maternal parenting behavior across contexts and reflective functioning among trauma-exposed mothers

AC Huth-Bocks, M Muzik, M Beeghly… - Attachment & Human …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
There is growing evidence that “secure-base scripts” are an important part of the cognitive
underpinnings of internal working models of attachment. Recent research in middle class …

Scripting attachment: Generalized event representations and internal working models

R Fivush - Attachment & human development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The secure base script construct is an innovative methodology that provides a reliable, valid,
and generative measure of the internal working model of attachment-related events based …

Adjustment factors of attachment, hope, and motivation in emerging adult well-being

JA Booker, JC Dunsmore, R Fivush - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021 - Springer
We studied direct and indirect associations of attachment, trait hope, and motivations in
narrative identity (agency and communion) with measures of well-being during emerging …

The Attachment Script Assessment: Introduction of a coding system to evaluate deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content

AM Groh, KC Haydon - Attachment & Human Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although research on adult attachment has yielded insight into the legacy of attachment for
functioning in adulthood, methodological challenges persist in the assessment of adult …

The Importance of Bonding.

R Young - International journal of childbirth education, 2013 - search.ebscohost.com
Bonding is a crucial process that is formed between a child and their parents. This process is
evidenced through socio-emotional, sensorimotor, and physical indicators. Both the mother …

Preschool children's mental representations of attachment: Antecedents in their secure base behaviors and maternal attachment scripts

M Wong, KK Bost, N Shin, M Veríssomo… - Attachment & Human …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the antecedents of preschool age children's mental representations of
attachment, assessed using the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT). Antecedent …