1. What are the contributions in "Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?" ?
The authors used follow-up assessments of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development cohort ( N = 585 ) to examine whether secure base script knowledge at age 18 years: ( a ) is associated with later romantic relationship quality, depressive symptoms, and body mass index ( BMI ) at age 26 years, and ( b ) mediates expected associations between the quality of maternal and paternal sensitivity across the first 15 years of life and age-26 outcomes.
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2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?" ?
For this reason, it falls to future research to determine whether and how much attachment representations are predictive of a range of quality indicators in adults ’ romantic relationships.. Future research that incorporates assessments of stress-regulation and biological markers of stress and metabolic function would help clarify these mechanisms.. Study limitations and future research. In the future, results should be replicated in more at-risk samples to enhance the external validity of this study.
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