A secure base from which to explore close relationships.

By Everett Waters, Mark Cummings. Child Development, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Social Psychology

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Parental Attachment, Self‐Worth, and Depressive Symptoms Among Emerging Adults (2006, background): “Future research might also seek to systemically examine the vast array of sources of security that might diminish emerging adults' reliance on parents as a source of self-worth or serve to compensate for insecure parental attachment relationships among emerging adults (Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
The Uniqueness of the Child–Father Attachment Relationship: Fathers’ Sensitive and Challenging Play as a Pivotal Variable in a 16‐year Longitudinal Study (2002, background): “…to two variables that influence an individual's later capacity to make affectional bonds: (1) the extent to which a child's parents provide him with a secure base, and (2) the extent to which they encourage him to explore from it (Bowlby, 1979, p. 136; again emphasised by Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
Attachment and the processing of social information across the life span: theory and evidence. (2011, background): “Attachments are also characterized by the tendency of infants to use their caregivers as secure bases from which they can confidently explore their environments during normal day-to-day activities (Bowlby, 1969/1982; Goldberg et al., 1999; E. Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
Growing through attachment: The interplay of attachment and exploration in adulthood (2010, background): “This is based on attachment theory’s notion of a secure base, which functions to support behavior that involves “going out” from the relationship for autonomous exploration of the environment (Bowlby, 1988; see also Crowell et al., 2002; Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, background): “This is based on attachment theory’s notion of a secure base, which functions to support behaviors that involve “going out” from a relationship for autonomous exploration in the environment (Bowlby, 1988; see also Crowell et al., 2002; Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
Adolescent romantic relationships and experiences (2009, background): “…model, in which functions and representations of caregiver-child attachment relationships (internal working models) organize expectations and behaviors in later relationships (e. g., Waters & Cummings, 2000), including selection of partners congruent with past partners (Sroufe & Fleeson, 1988).”
Kindergarten Social-Emotional Competence: Developmental Predictors and Psychosocial Implications (2002, background): “A variety of theories have been proposed to explain why hypothesized connections between attachment with caregivers and relationships with peers are sensible assumptions (see Bretherton, 1992; Thompson, 1999; Waters and Cummings, 2000).”
School competence in young adolescence: Links to early attachment relationships beyond concurrent self-perceived competence and representations of relationships (2002, background): “Thus, children’s con dence in a relationship allows them to explore away from a secure base and master successfully ordinary environments such as schools (Waters & Cummings, 2000).”
Developmental Differences in Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Use of Mothers, Fathers, Best Friends, and Romantic Partners to Fulfill Attachment Needs (2006, background): “The contribution of attachment to parents is expected to be most evident in fulfilling secure base functions ( Waters and Cummings, 2000 ).”
Arousal regulation and affective adaptation to human responsiveness by a robot that explores and learns a novel environment (2014, background): “A secure base for development Bowlby introduced the notion of Secure Base to reflect the role that caregivers play in grounding the exploratory behaviors of infants, qualifying the attachment figure as an affective safe haven from which to explore (Bowlby, 1988; Waters and Cummings, 2000) and develo”
Partnership Instability and Child Well-Being (2007, background): “A chaotic, unpredictable environment negatively alters amother’s capacity to care for her child (Pavenstadt, 1965; Waters & Cummings, 2000).”