The Latent Structure of Secure Base Script Knowledge

There is increasing evidence that attachment representations abstracted from childhood experiences with primary caregivers are organized as a cognitive script describing secure base use and support (i.e., the secure base script). To date, however, the latent structure of secure base script knowledge...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2015-06, Vol.51 (6), p.823-830
Main Authors: Waters, Theodore E. A., Fraley, R. Chris, Groh, Ashley M., Steele, Ryan D., Vaughn, Brian E., Bost, Kelly K., Veríssimo, Manuela, Coppola, Gabrielle, Roisman, Glenn I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Adults
Attachment Behavior
Caregivers
Caregivers - psychology
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Developmental psychology
Early Experience
Emotional Security
Factor Analysis
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Factor Structure
Female
Human
Humans
Individual Differences
Interpersonal Relations
Knowledge
Latent structure analysis
Male
Measurement
Measures (Individuals)
Methodology
Middle Aged
Object Attachment
Schema
Schemata (Cognition)
Security (Psychology)
Statistical Analysis
Teenagers
Young Adult
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Summary:There is increasing evidence that attachment representations abstracted from childhood experiences with primary caregivers are organized as a cognitive script describing secure base use and support (i.e., the secure base script). To date, however, the latent structure of secure base script knowledge has gone unexamined-this despite that such basic information about the factor structure and distributional properties of these individual differences has important conceptual implications for our understanding of how representations of early experience are organized and generalized, as well as methodological significance in relation to maximizing statistical power and precision. In this study, we report factor and taxometric analyses that examined the latent structure of secure base script knowledge in 2 large samples. Results suggested that variation in secure base script knowledge-as measured by both the adolescent (N = 674) and adult (N = 714) versions of the Attachment Script Assessment-is generalized across relationships and continuously distributed.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/dev0000012