PPT Slide
The current study produced a number of key findings that bear on the generalized secure base script hypothesis, i.e., that a single, general purpose, abstract secure base script organizes a secure person’s conceptualization of past attachment experience.
- There are strong individual differences in knowledge and access to a child-mother secure base script. Secure women were more likely to produce mother/child narratives that followed a secure base script.
- There are strong individual differences in knowledge and use of an adult-adult secure base script. Secure women were more likely to produce adult/adult narratives that followed a secure base script.
- The same script organizes behavior in both domains. As the correlations to the left indicate, scriptedness scores on the adult/adult and mother/child narratives correlate highly. In addition the stories within each category correlate highly. These patterns of correlations are indicative of a single, generalized script.