ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2023
Measuring Parental Reflective Functioning: Further Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in Portuguese Mothers of Infants and Young Children.
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- Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire among maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Trial
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- 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
- Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in Finnish mothers and fathers of toddlers.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- Validating the parental reflective functioning questionnaire - infant version using a rasch model.Infant mental health journal · 2025Article
- Parental mentalization across cultures: Mind-mindedness and parental reflective functioning in British and South Korean mothers.Infant mental health journal · 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
- Study Protocol for the Development and Preliminary Efficacy Assessment ofHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The parent's and the child's internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- The significance of parental mentalizing for four-year-old children's solitary pretend play.PloS one · 2024Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in Polish mothers.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study examines the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Portuguese Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). The PRFQ is a brief questionnaire of parental reflective functioning that comprises three subscales: pre-mentalizing modes of mental states, certainty about mental states, and interest and curiosity in mental states. Two independent samples were included in the study: a sample composed of 710 mothers of children aged 0 to 36 months (Study 1) and a sample composed of 120 mothers of children aged 1 to 5 years (Study 2). Each sample completed a different set of self-report questionnaires. The original correlated three-factor structure was confirmed through confirmatory factor analyses. The three PRFQ subscales exhibited adequate reliability and correlated in the expected directions with several outcomes (psychopathology symptoms, emotion dysregulation, parent attachment, and parenting styles). The Portuguese PRFQ is a psychometrically robust measure of parental reflective functioning appropriate for research use in Portugal.
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