Journal article
Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure
Child development, Vol.90(3), pp.694-707
05/01/2019
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13229
PMCID: PMC6491231
PMID: 30791090
Abstract
Taxometric investigation of scripted attachment representations in lateadolescence and adulthood suggests that variations in secure base script knowledge consist of differences in degree (dimensional latent structure) rather than differences in kind (categorical latent structure). However, the latent structure of secure base script knowledge in younger cohorts has gone unexplored. This study presents a downward extension of prior taxometric work using the middle childhood version of the Attachment Script Assessment in a cross-sectional sample of 639 normative-risk children (age 8 to 13years; M=10.77, SD=1.06). Results suggest that secure base script knowledge in middle childhood is categorically distributed. Taxometric curves revealed three distinct taxa, highlighting discontinuity in the latent structure of scripted attachment representations across development.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure
- Creators
- Theodore E. A. Waters - New York University Abu DhabiChristopher R. Facompre - New York University Abu DhabiAdinda Dujardin - KU LeuvenMagali Van De Walle - KU LeuvenMartine Verhees - Univ Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumNajda Bodner - KU LeuvenLea J. Boldt - University of IowaGuy Bosmans - KU Leuven
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.90(3), pp.694-707
- DOI
- 10.1111/cdev.13229
- PMID
- 30791090
- PMCID
- PMC6491231
- NLM abbreviation
- Child Dev
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- G.0757.18N; G.0774.15N; G.0934.12N / Research Foundation Flanders; FWO R01HD091047 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R01 HD069171; R01 HD091047 / National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) K02 MH01446; R01 MH63096 / National Institute of Mental Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) OT/12/043; C14/16/040 / Research Fund KU Leuven; KU Leuven
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984288743902771
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