a Human Development and Family Studies , Auburn University , Auburn , AL , USA.
Attach Hum Dev. 2019 Jun;21(3):289-306. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2019.1575551. Epub 2019 Feb 12.
Attachment theorists have characterized children's internal working models, forged from early attachment relationship histories, as the link between earlier and later manifestations of competence. In this study, working models of attachment were measured as access to and use of the secure base script (SBS) to organize children's attachment relevant narratives (N = 139). Study goals were to assess relations between SBS use and a range of adaptive functioning domains including peer social competence, teacher/child relationships, effortful control, executive function, and verbal intelligence. Simultaneous path analyses using structural equations indicated that SBS use was significantly associated with each of these outcome domains. Findings were reproduced when effects of verbal intelligence, sex and age were controlled, except for effortful control. Results suggest that children's internalized attachment representations are intertwined with adaptive functioning during early childhood.
依恋理论家将儿童的内部工作模式描述为早期依恋关系历史所形成的链接，是儿童早期和后期表现出的能力之间的联系。在这项研究中，依恋工作模式被衡量为访问和使用安全基地脚本 (SBS) 来组织与儿童依恋相关的叙述（N=139）。研究目标是评估 SBS 使用与一系列适应功能领域之间的关系，包括同伴社交能力、师生关系、努力控制、执行功能和言语智力。使用结构方程的同步路径分析表明，SBS 使用与这些结果领域中的每一个都显著相关。当控制言语智力、性别和年龄的影响时，除了努力控制之外，这些发现都得到了复制。研究结果表明，儿童内化的依恋表现与幼儿期的适应功能相互交织。
