Mentalization in children and mothers in the context of trauma: an initial study of the validity of the Child Reflective Functioning Scale.
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This study examined the validity of the C hild R eflective F unctioning S cale ( CRFS : E nsink, T arget, & O andason, 2013, Child reflective functioning scale scoring manual: for application to the Child Attachment Interview . L ondon, UK : A nna F reud C entre – U niversity C ollege L ondon), a measure designed to assess reflective functioning ( RF ) or mentalization during middle childhood. Participants were 94 mother–child dyads divided into two subgroups; 46 dyads where children had histories of intrafamilial ( n = 22 dyads) or extrafamilial ( n = 24 dyads) sexual abuse, and a community control group composed of 48 mother–child dyads. RF of children and their mothers was assessed using videotaped and transcribed data gathered using the Child Attachment Interview and the Parent Development Interview ( PDI : S lade, A ber, B resi, B erger, & K aplan, 2004, The parent development interview‐Revised . N ew Y ork, NY : T he C ity U niversity of N ew Y ork). The findings indicate that the CRFS proved reliable, with excellent intraclass correlation coefficients for general RF , as well as RF regarding self and others. Significant differences in RF were found between sexually abused children and the control group, and also between children who had experienced intrafamilial and extrafamilial sexual abuse. This provides support for the discriminant validity of the CRFS . Furthermore, maternal RF was associated with child RF . Both abuse and maternal RF made significant contributions to predicting children's RF regarding themselves, but child sexual abuse was the only variable that made a significant contribution to explaining variance in children's RF regarding others.
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Maternal AAI-RF was associated with the children's reflective functioning regarding themselves in a sample of school-aged children with a history of abuse.
“and was associated to the children’s reflective functioning regarding themselves in a sample of school-aged children with a history of abuse (Ensink et al., 2015).”
From Mentalizing makes parenting work: a review about parental reflective functioning and clinical interventions to improve it (2017) · cites this paper as Ensink et al., 2015
Higher parental RF was associated with better mentalizing abilities in children.
“Moreover, higher parental RF was associated with better mentalizing abilities in children (Benbassat and Priel, 2012; Ensink et al., 2015; Rosso et al., 2015; Scopesi et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- Ensink, K., Normandin, L., Target, M., Fonagy, P., Sabourin, S., & Berthelot, N.
- Affiliations
- Université Laval (CA)
- University College London (GB)
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Ensink, Karin
- Venue
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-12-08
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203-217
- ISSN
- 0261-510X (ISSN-L)
- 2044-835X
- OpenAlex
- W2061334458
- Semantic Scholar
- 76eb25ab4d64cb8ac09a60d3e1d1df3f9ae24a0e
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 15.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0510-10228, NF-SI-0514-10157)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- mentalization, reflective functioning, child sexual abuse, intrafamilial sexual abuse, mother-child dyads, maternal reflective functioning, middle childhood, discriminant validity, Child Attachment Interview
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Family, Female, Humans, Male, Mothers, Object Attachment, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Self Concept, Theory of Mind
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