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Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning: Links to Parental Attachment Representations and Behavioral Sensitivity
Originally published 2024-02-07 · Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s10578-023-01654-2 ↗
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How do parents describe their efforts to understand what a preschooler has in mind?
The study relates parents' accounts of their capacity to think about mental states to their attachment representations and behavior.
Who was studied?
Mothers and fathers of preschool children assessed with a German reflective-functioning questionnaire
Age / stage: 5–6 years
Read with three questions
- How do parents describe their efforts to understand what a preschooler has in mind?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (mothers and fathers of preschool children assessed with a German reflective-functioning questionnaire) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
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Parents of five- and six-year-olds reported on their own reflective functioning. Their evaluations of thinking about feelings are distinct from the child's account of a particular interaction.
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Melanie T Kungl; Sandra Gabler; Lars O White; Gottfried Spangler; Pascal Vrticka (2024). Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning: Links to Parental Attachment Representations and Behavioral Sensitivity Child Psychiatry and Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01654-2
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