Parental attachment style: examination of links with parent secure base provision and adolescent secure base use

A SECURE BASE Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development

Perceptions of secure base provision within the family.

The present study examined three sets of questions about secure base provision in the context of the family, including (1) relations between inter-parental perceptions of secure base provision and parents' adult romantic attachment and marital satisfaction, (2) interrelations among family members' perception of secure base provision, and (3) links between both adolescents' and parents' percepti...

A secure base in adolescence: markers of attachment security in the mother-adolescent relationship.

This study sought to identify ways in which adolescent attachment security, as assessed via the Adult Attachment Interview, is manifest in qualities of the secure base provided by the mother-adolescent relationship. Assessments included data coded from mother-adolescent interactions, test-based data, and adolescent self-reports obtained from an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of...

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

This study examined the antecedents of preschool age children's mental representations of attachment, assessed using the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT). Antecedent predictors were maternal attachment scripts, assessed using the Attachment Script Assessment (ASA), and the child's secure base behaviors, assessed using the Attachment Q-Set (AQS). Participants were 121 mothers and their pr...

Cumulative Risk, Parental Emotional Expressivity, And Parental Secure Base As Predictors Of Children's Social Competence

CUMULATIVE RISK, PARENTAL EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY, ANDPARENTAL SECURE BASE AS PREDICTORS OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALCOMPETENCEbyCAITLIN MARIE MCLEARMay 2013Advisor: Dr. Christopher J. TrentacostaMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ArtsThere is substantial evidence in the literature focusing on the effects a child’s socialcompetence can have on futur...