ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
Fathers' and Mothers' Early Mind-Mindedness Predicts Social Competence and Behavior Problems in Childhood.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of parental mentalization in fathers and mothers.Infant mental health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Parent-Child Play and the Emergence of Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems in Childhood: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring parental mind-mindedness in the context of atypical and at-risk development: A scoping review of parental well-being, parenting, and child characteristics.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Infant negative affect, maternal intrusiveness, and child outcomes: The moderating role of maternal mind-mindedness in shaping psychopathology risk or resilience.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Mind-mindedness in context: A comparison of measures from structured and naturalistic conditions and their associations with expressive vocabulary.Infant behavior & development · 2026Article
- The child's internal working model of the parent as a mechanism linking parental mind-mindedness with the child's processing of relational events: A longitudinal study from infancy to preschool age.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Family Intervention (MYmind) Versus Methylphenidate for Childhood ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Parsing Interactive Social Cognition: Mentalizing Accuracy and Propensity in Dyadic Contexts.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Language as a Window to the Mind: Parental Mental State Language in Relation to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children's Social-Emotional Skills.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Holding dysregulation in mind: How maternal mind-mindedness relates to regulatory symptoms and disorders in infancy.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- Transgenerational association of mentalization with child mental health: A scoping review.Family process · 2025Article
- Early relational origins of Theory of Mind: A two-study replication.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- One and one makes three-mothers' and fathers' attachment, mentalizing and parenting sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Household chaos, emotion regulation and social adjustment in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Elucidating mechanisms linking mothers' and fathers' mind-mindedness in infancy with children's self-regulation at early preschool age.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2024Article
- Mind-mindedness in mothers of infants with excessive crying/sleeping/eating disorders.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mind-mindedness and styles of interaction of young fathers with their infants at three months: a pilot study.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- The relationship between parental mental health, reflective functioning coparenting and social emotional development in 0-3 year old children.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Parents' early representations of their children moderate socialization processes: Evidence from two studies.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- A Cohort Study on the Effect of Parental Mind-Mindedness in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Parental mind-mindedness, the parent's propensity to treat the child as an intentional agent, has repeatedly shown to promote children's development of social understanding and secure attachment. Less is known about whether the impact of maternal and paternal mind-mindedness extends to children's social and behavior problems. We investigated the combined effect of mothers' and fathers' (N = 104) mind-mindedness at 4, 12, and 30 months on children's social competence and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems at 4.5 years. Besides, we examined the stability, continuity, parental concordance, and inter-parental differences in the use of mind-related comments. Appropriate mind-mindedness (i.e., correct interpretations of the child's mental states) and nonattuned mind-mindedness (i.e., misinterpretations of the child's mental states) were observed during parent-child free-play interactions. Social competence, internalizing and externalizing behavior problems were assessed using both parents' reports. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that, at 12 months, infrequent use of appropriate mind-related comments of both parents predicted children's externalizing problems, while their frequent use of nonattuned comments predicted children's low social competence. Furthermore, mothers' frequent use of nonattuned comments at 12 and 30 months and fathers' nonattuned comments at 30 months predicted children's externalizing behavior. The findings suggest that both parents' low use of mind-related comments, and frequent misinterpretations of their child's mind, may act as risk factors for later social and behavior problems of their child.
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