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Reflective functioning in parents of school-aged children.
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Parental reflective functioning (RF) has garnered tremendous support as a predictor of secure attachment in infancy, though little work has examined RF among parents of older children. In this study, we used a high-risk community sample of parent-child dyads (N = 117) to explore whether parental RF comprises self- and child-focused factors, whether parental RF is associated with parent and child attachment security, and whether parental RF mediates the association between parent and child attachment security. Results suggested that parental RF can be characterized as having both self- and child-focused components, and that child-focused parental RF is associated with child but not parent attachment security. Further, child-focused parental RF indirectly mediates the association between parent attachment avoidance and child attachment security. These findings extend previous work on parental RF to parents of school-age children and, in so doing, inform developmental models of attachment relationships in middle childhood. Discussion focuses on the importance of these findings in informing theory, prevention, clinical practice, and policy.
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“The two-factor structure of the PDI-RF was confirmed by a later study (Borelli et al., 2016) in a community sample of parents of school-aged children.”
From Mentalizing makes parenting work: a review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it (2017) · cites this paper as Borelli et al., 2016
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“However, in this study neither of the PDI-RF dimensions correlated with maternal attachment security, and only child-focused RF was associated with children’s attachment security.”
From Mentalizing makes parenting work: a review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it (2017) · cites this paper as Borelli et al., 2016
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“Two studies alone (Suchman et al., 2010a; Borelli et al., 2016) investigated the factor structure of the PDI-RF, identifying two factors, namely self-mentalization and child-mentalization.”
From Mentalizing makes parenting work: a review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it (2017) · cites this paper as Borelli et al., 2016
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Lathren, C., Borelli, J. L., Ellsworth, R., Harr, E. D., DiMaio, S., Tatera, J. L., Diaz, V., Bluth, K., Herringa, R. J., & Heyn, S. A. (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1933287
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- Authors
- Borelli, J. L., St. John, H. K., Cho, E., & Suchman, N. E.
- Affiliations
- Pomona College (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 24-36
- ISSN
- 0002-9432 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0025
- PMC
- PMC5102156
- OpenAlex
- W2406397457
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 9.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Sponsor name not includeds
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- parental reflective functioning, attachment security, parent-child attachment, elementary school students, attachment avoidance, mediation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Object Attachment, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Social Class, Parenting
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