TY - JOUR
T1 - Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?
AU - Dagan, Or
AU - Buisman, Renate S.M.
AU - Nivison, Marissa D.
AU - Waters, Theodore E.A.
AU - Vaughn, Brian E.
AU - Bost, Kelly K.
AU - Bleil, Maria E.
AU - Lowe Vandell, Deborah
AU - Booth-LaForce, Cathryn
AU - Roisman, Glenn I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Increasingly, attachment representations are being assessed via secure base script knowledge–the degree to which individuals show awareness of the temporal-causal schema that summarizes the basic features of seeking and receiving effective support from caregivers during times of need. Limited research has assessed the links between secure base script knowledge and aspects of adult functioning and the role that secure base script knowledge may play in accounting for associations between early caregiving quality and adulthood functioning. We used follow-up assessments of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development cohort (N = 585) to examine whether secure base script knowledge at age 18 years: (a) is associated with later romantic relationship quality, depressive symptoms, and body mass index (BMI) at age 26 years, and (b) mediates expected associations between the quality of maternal and paternal sensitivity across the first 15 years of life and age-26 outcomes. More access to, and elaborated knowledge of the secure base script predicted less extreme hostility with romantic partners, and better emotional and physical health. Moreover, secure base script knowledge mediated the links between early maternal and paternal sensitivity and both later romantic partner hostility and depressive symptoms, but not BMI.
AB - Increasingly, attachment representations are being assessed via secure base script knowledge–the degree to which individuals show awareness of the temporal-causal schema that summarizes the basic features of seeking and receiving effective support from caregivers during times of need. Limited research has assessed the links between secure base script knowledge and aspects of adult functioning and the role that secure base script knowledge may play in accounting for associations between early caregiving quality and adulthood functioning. We used follow-up assessments of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development cohort (N = 585) to examine whether secure base script knowledge at age 18 years: (a) is associated with later romantic relationship quality, depressive symptoms, and body mass index (BMI) at age 26 years, and (b) mediates expected associations between the quality of maternal and paternal sensitivity across the first 15 years of life and age-26 outcomes. More access to, and elaborated knowledge of the secure base script predicted less extreme hostility with romantic partners, and better emotional and physical health. Moreover, secure base script knowledge mediated the links between early maternal and paternal sensitivity and both later romantic partner hostility and depressive symptoms, but not BMI.
KW - Parental sensitivity
KW - depressive symptoms
KW - physical health
KW - romantic relationships
KW - secure base script knowledge
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U2 - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1836858
DO - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1836858
M3 - Article
C2 - 33107784
AN - SCOPUS:85094610131
SN - 1461-6734
VL - 23
SP - 643
EP - 664
JO - Attachment and Human Development
JF - Attachment and Human Development
IS - 5
ER -