PPT Slide
Representation of early secure base experience in the mind.
Script-like Dyadic Generalized
AAI coherence substantially reflects knowledge and access
to a generalized secure base script.
Prompt-Word Outline method can be used to examine a wide range of hypotheses about attachment representations and proposed attachment measures.
- Future research should pursue how this link from childhood to adulthood is maintained. Given the established link between mother security and child security, it seems likely that secure parents actively transmit the secure scripts that are the building blocks of secure attachment representations. Different communication styles of secure and insecure parents should be anticipated and documented.