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VI. INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF SECURE BASE SCRIPT KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF MATERNAL CO‐CONSTRUCTION SKILLS
Author(s) -
Apetroaia Adela,
Waters Harriet S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
monographs of the society for research in child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1540-5834
pISSN - 0037-976X
DOI - 10.1111/mono.12393
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , knowledge base , task (project management) , affect (linguistics) , communication , management , world wide web , computer science , economics
This study examined the link between mothers’ and children's script‐like representations of attachment and the role of maternal co‐construction skills in facilitating script knowledge in their children. Fifty‐nine children recruited from preschools in Bucharest, Romania (age range 4 to 5 years) completed a shortened version of the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT) to assess their secure base script knowledge whereas their mother's script knowledge was assessed with the Attachment Script Assessment (ASA). In addition, the mother–child pairs completed the Affect Discussion Task (see Chapter II) to assess mothers’ co‐construction skills. Mother and child secure base script knowledge was significantly related, as were maternal co‐construction skills and child script knowledge. Regression analyses indicated that maternal co‐construction skills impacted children's script knowledge above and beyond the effects of maternal script scores.