a Department of Psychology , Wayne State University , Detroit , MI , USA.
Attach Hum Dev. 2018 Aug;20(4):406-422. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2017.1414861. Epub 2017 Dec 29.
Secure attachment relationships have been linked to social competence in at-risk children. In the current study, we examined the role of parent secure base scripts in predicting at-risk kindergarteners' social competence. Parent representations of secure attachment were hypothesized to mediate the relationship between lower family cumulative risk and children's social competence. Participants included 106 kindergarteners and their primary caregivers recruited from three urban charter schools serving low-income families as a part of a longitudinal study. Lower levels of cumulative risk predicted greater secure attachment representations in parents, and scores on the secure base script assessment predicted children's social competence. An indirect relationship between lower cumulative risk and kindergarteners' social competence via parent secure base script scores was also supported. Parent script-based representations of the attachment relationship appear to be an important link between lower levels of cumulative risk and low-income kindergarteners' social competence. Implications of these findings for future interventions are discussed.
安全的依恋关系与高危儿童的社交能力有关。在本研究中，我们考察了父母安全基地脚本在预测高危幼儿园儿童社交能力方面的作用。假设父母对安全依恋的描述可以调节较低家庭累积风险与儿童社交能力之间的关系。参与者包括 106 名幼儿园儿童及其主要照顾者，他们来自三所为低收入家庭服务的城市特许学校，作为一项纵向研究的一部分。较低的累积风险预测父母的安全依恋代表有更大的提升空间，而安全基地脚本评估的分数则预测了儿童的社交能力。较低的累积风险与幼儿园儿童社交能力之间也存在通过父母安全基地脚本分数的间接关系。父母基于脚本的依恋关系描述似乎是较低水平的累积风险与低收入幼儿园儿童社交能力之间的一个重要联系。这些发现对未来干预的意义将进行讨论。
