There is considerable controversy regarding the accuracy and suggestibility of children’s autobiographical memory for emotionally salient life events. Attachment perspectives of autobiographical memory development identify the attachment security of parent–child dyads and parents’ emotional support and coherence during reminiscing with their children as critical mechanisms underlying children’s memory accuracy and suggestibility. In the current investigation, 72 preschool-aged children (M = 4.01 years, SD = 0.85; 44 female) reminisced with their parents about times they felt happy, sad, scared, and angry. Children were then independently interviewed about these experiences by an unfamiliar researcher using free recall, specific questions (i.e., questions about factual details), and misleading questions (i.e., questions suggesting false details). Parents completed an assessment of their children’s attachment security within the parent–child relationship. Results revealed significant indirect effects of parent–child attachment security on children’s memory accuracy through parental sensitive guidance during reminiscing when cognitive (i.e., intelligence) and behavioral (i.e., temperament, behavior problems) covariates were statistically controlled. Parent–child attachment security was positively associated with parental sensitive guidance during reminiscing, which, in turn, was positively associated with the accuracy of children’s independent reports. The findings support attachment perspectives of autobiographical memory by identifying emotionally sensitive and coherent reminiscing as a parenting behavior that explains in part associations between parent–child attachment security and children’s independent memory accuracy for emotional life events.

关于儿童情感显着生活事件的自传记忆的准确性和可暗示性，存在相当大的争议。自传体记忆发展的依恋视角将亲子二人的依恋安全性和父母在与孩子回忆时的情感支持和连贯性确定为儿童记忆准确性和可暗示性的关键机制。在本次调查中，72 名学龄前儿童（M  = 4.01 岁，SD = 0.85; 44 位女性）与父母一起回忆他们感到快乐、悲伤、害怕和愤怒的时光。然后，不熟悉的研究人员使用自由回忆、具体问题（即关于事实细节的问题）和误导性问题（即，暗示虚假细节的问题）对儿童就这些经历进行了独立访谈。父母完成了对他们孩子在亲子关系中的依恋安全性的评估。结果显示，当认知（即，智力）和行为（即，气质，行为问题）协变量被统计控制时，亲子依恋安全对儿童记忆准确性的显着间接影响是通过父母在回忆过程中的敏感指导。亲子依恋安全与回忆过程中父母的敏感指导呈正相关，而这又与儿童独立报告的准确性呈正相关。研究结果通过将情绪敏感和连贯的回忆识别为一种养育行为，部分解释了亲子依恋安全性与儿童对情感生活事件的独立记忆准确性之间的关联，从而支持了自传体记忆的依恋观点。