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Waters, Theodore E. A.; Bosmans, Guy; Vandevivere, Eva; Dujardin, Adinda; Waters, Harriet S. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. This work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
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Zaman, Widaad; Fivush, Robyn – Developmental Psychology, 2013
How individuals construct narratives involving attachment figures (e.g., parents) should reflect their representation of those individuals as either comforting or unsupportive (Bowlby, 1969). Similarly, how individuals talk about parents' childhood experiences may also reflect their attachment representation. Sixty-five 13- to 16-year-old…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Middle Class, Correlation
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Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Children, Adolescents