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SECURE BASE SCRIPT CONTENT EXPLAINS THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ATTACHMENT AVOIDANCE AND EMOTION-RELATED CONSTRUCTS IN PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
- Source :
- Infant Mental Health Journal. 38:210-225
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- The secure base script (SBS) framework is one method of assessing implicit internal working models of attachment; recently, researchers have applied this method to analyze narratives regarding relationship experiences. This study examines the associations between attachment avoidance and SBS content when parents recall a positive moment of connection between themselves and their children (relational savoring) as well as their association with parental emotion and reflective functioning (RF). Using a sample of parents (N = 155, 92% female) of young children (53% boys, Mage = 12.76 months), we found that parental attachment avoidance is inversely associated with SBS content during relational savoring, and that SBS content is an indirect effect explaining the association between attachment avoidance and postsavoring (positive and negative) emotion as well as avoidance and poststressor RF. Findings have implications for understanding attachment and parenting.
- Subjects :
- Psychiatry and Mental health
Recall
05 social sciences
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
050109 social psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
Association (psychology)
050104 developmental & child psychology
Developmental psychology
Savoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01639641
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Infant Mental Health Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a96bcf37f9a3c462170ef3e3af4f2417