Guion de Base Segura y Calidad Narrativa en Relatos Maternos: Abordaje Interdisciplinario desde la Psicología y la Lingüística

Research in mental attachment representations that has the most conceptual and empirical breakthroughs is focused in designing assessment instruments based on narratives. From an interdisciplinary perspective, within the fields of psychology and linguistic, this study explores the relationship between the narrative quality, the level of manifestation of the secure base attachment script and the educational level in stories created by 56 mothers of Bogotá, Colombia. Two instruments were used: The Secure Base Attachment Script Assessment (ASA) and the Narrative Quality Assessment (ECAN). The results showed positive and significant associations between the 3 variables of the study: narrative quality, attachment script level and mothers' education level. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank test showed significant differences in narrative quality between the secure base prompt word stories and the non-secure base (neutral) prompt word stories, and in narrative quality and coherence (pragmatic, global and local). The results are discussed from a psychological, linguistic, and socioeducational perspectives.