Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure

Waters, Theodore E. A.; Facompré, Christopher R.; Dujardin, Adinda; Walle, Magali Van de; Verhees, Martine W. F. T.; Bodner, Nadja; Boldt, Lea J.; Bosmans, Guy

doi:10.1111/cdev.13229

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“…Studies in the last few years have reported evidence of a generalized secure base script in both adolescent and adult samples (Waters et al, ) and even in some findings from late middle childhood (Boldt, Waters, & Kochanska, ; Waters et al, ), supporting our interpretation that script knowledge tends to be broad based. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated an underlying latent generalized script knowledge that encompassed a range of attachment narratives included in the different age‐appropriate ASAs.…”

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Vii. Maternal Secure Base Script Knowledge and Judgments of Mother–child Interactions

Waters¹,

Corcoran²,

Waters³

2018

Monographs Society Res Child

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Previous studies have shown that mothers with high script scores are better at providing secure base support in naturalistic settings. In the current study, we examine whether maternal script knowledge guides mothers’ expectations and judgments of mother–child interactions, providing a bridge between their knowledge and behavior. Forty mothers were asked to use a new Parental Secure Base Q‐set designed to characterize a typical mother–child play day at a park. Furthermore, video clips from mother–child joint storytelling sessions, already scored for maternal co‐construction skills (from Chapter IV), were presented. The mothers rated the videotaped mothers’ interaction skills on several quality of interaction scales (sensitivity to signals, cooperation vs. inference, affect regulation). Results indicated that mothers with high script scores showed greater understanding of secure base support (Q‐sort data) and an observant “eye” for skillful mother–child interaction, particularly with respect to noting less effective mother–child interactions. These findings support the hypothesis that secure base script knowledge is linked to broad‐based understanding of secure base support across contexts.

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Vii. Maternal Secure Base Script Knowledge and Judgments of Mother–child Interactions

Waters¹,

Corcoran²,

Waters³

2018

Monographs Society Res Child

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“…showed that links between attachment and prosocial behavior are hard to nd in middle childhood, but become more apparent in adolescence [64]. This is in line with research showing that SBS knowledge is still signi cantly developing in middle childhood [22]. It could be that, at ages when the SBS further matured, links with prosocial behavior are more easily found.…”

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Reactive Attachment Disorder Symptoms and Prosocial Behavior in Middle Childhood: The Role of Secure Base Script Knowledge 

Cuyvers

Vervoort²,

Bosmans

2020

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Background: Children with attachment disorder show prosocial behavior problems. Children with a reactive attachment disorder show inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior. Consequently, these children typically display prosocial behavior problems. However, the underlying mechanism between reactive attachment disorder and prosocial behavior problems is still unclear and findings in literature are mixed. Methods: The current study investigated the role of children’s attachment representations in this association. Attachment representations reflect knowledge about a cognitive script regarding the attachment figure as a source for support (Secure Base Script). We tested whether secure base script knowledge 1) mediates or 2) moderates the link between reactive attachment disorder and prosocial behavior problems in 83 children (6-11 years; 83.1% boys) recruited from special education schools for children with behavioral problems. Children completed a pictorial Secure Base Script Test. Their reactive attachment disorder symptoms were assessed during an interview with the primary caregivers. Primary caregivers and teachers filled out a prosocial behavior questionnaire about the child. Results: Results did not support the mediation hypothesis, but evidence for the moderation hypothesis was found. Secure base script knowledge attenuated the negative association between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior. Conclusions: These findings contribute to the discussion about the link between attachment representations and attachment disorders.

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“…Age was positively correlated with SBS knowledge. This suggests that, with increasing age, children displayed more SBS knowledge, which is expected based on previous SBS research in middle childhood [19]. In addition, perceptual intelligence was positively correlated with SBS knowledge suggesting that part of the variance in our measure of SBS knowledge related to intelligence.…”

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“…Firstly, this could have been caused by our measure of SBS knowledge, which was novel and used for the rst time in the current study. Our measure diverged from the much better studied word-prompt SBS measure where children are asked to use a list of words that roughly suggest a secure base story in order to create narratives that can be coded for SBS knowledge [56,57,19]. However, when developing the current study, we were worried that this narrative approach was going to be too di cult given ADS children's expected limited cognitive and narrative skills [58].…”

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Attachment Disorder Symptoms and Prosocial Behavior in Middle Childhood: The Role of Secure Base Script Knowledge

Cuyvers

Vervoort²,

Bosmans

2020

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Background: Children with attachment disorder show prosocial behavior problems. Prosocial behavior problems are an operationalization of the symptom of inhibited and emotionally withdrawn behavior in children with attachment disorder symptoms. However, the underlying mechanism between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior problems is still unclear and findings in literature are mixed.Methods: The current study investigated the role of children’s attachment representations in this association. Attachment representations reflect knowledge about a cognitive script regarding the attachment figure as a source for support (Secure Base Script). We tested whether secure base script knowledge 1) mediates or 2) moderates the link between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior problems in 67 children (6-11 years; 83.1% boys) recruited from special education schools for children with behavioral problems. Children completed a pictorial Secure Base Script Test. Their attachment disorder symptoms were assessed during an interview with the primary caregivers. Primary caregivers and teachers filled out a prosocial behavior questionnaire about the child. Results: Results did not support the mediation hypothesis, but evidence for the moderation hypothesis was found. Secure base script knowledge attenuated the negative association between attachment disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior.Conclusions: These findings contribute to the discussion about the link between attachment representations and attachment disorders.

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Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure

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Vii. Maternal Secure Base Script Knowledge and Judgments of Mother–child Interactions

Vii. Maternal Secure Base Script Knowledge and Judgments of Mother–child Interactions

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Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure

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Vii. Maternal Secure Base Script Knowledge and Judgments of Mother–child Interactions

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