ArticleJournal of child and family studies2019
Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Parental Reflective Functioning.
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- Emotion Regulation, Parenting, and Psychopathology: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Problematic Media Use among Children up to the Age of 10: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Parental Embodied Mentalizing AssessmentBMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Role of Adolescent Mentalizing and Parental Reflective Functioning for Adolescents' Peer Relationships.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Parenting in Armed Political Conflict: Relationships Between Parental Efficacy, Reflective Functioning, and Age Among War-Displaced Families.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Emotion dysregulation and parent emotion socialization in mothers with and without borderline pathology.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning: Links to Parental Attachment Representations and Behavioral Sensitivity.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Profiles of parental reflective functioning and mind-mindedness in first-time parents of 4-month-old infants.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- The freedom to mentalize: The influence of socio-demographic indicators of empowerment on parental reflective functioning.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- The role of parental mentalizing on the link between parental depression and child emotion regulation.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2025Article
- "If I could read your mind…": parental mentalizing in mothers with borderline personality disorder.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Emotion Dysregulation and Parent Emotion Socialization in Mothers with Borderline Pathology.Research square · 2025Article
- Violence in the Family of Origin, Reflective Functioning, and the Perpetration of Isolating Behaviors in Intimate Relationships: A Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Minding the child's mind: parental reflective functioning as a buffer for child distress in displaced families at war zones.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Pathways from Parent Internalizing Symptoms to Parent and Youth Emotion Functioning.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Parent Emotion Regulation, Mindful Parenting, and Youth Attachment: Direct and Indirect Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Problems.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Parental Reflective Capacities: A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting and Parental Reflective Functioning.Mindfulness · 2024Article
- A preliminary validation of PMQ-A four-factor questionnaire measuring parental mentalizing.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The significance of parental mentalizing for four-year-old children's solitary pretend play.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Emotion regulation encapsulates the capability to successfully manage an ongoing emotional experience, particularly in social interactions, and thus may be especially significant to early parent-child relationships. In particular, the capacity to adjust emotions may support parental mentalization and reflective functioning - how parents think about their own and their child's mental states and how these mental states effect behavior. To examine this issue, we investigated the association between emotion regulation, emotion dysregulation, and parental reflective functioning in a maternal sample (N=97). We found that mothers with higher tendencies to suppress their emotions and who had more difficulties with emotion regulation engaged in greater levels of pre-mentalizing (i.e., a non-mentalizing mode). Mothers with poorer emotional awareness also evidenced less interest and curiosity in their child's mental states. Finally, mothers who reported greater difficulty setting goals also evidenced a reduced capacity to recognize that their infant's mental states are not directly observable. Taken together, our findings support the relationship between different aspects of emotion regulation and maternal reflective functioning, suggesting that emotion regulation should be integrated in empirical and intervention work that targets maternal mentalization.
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