Maternal Narratives Contribute to Foundations of the Child's Inner World. Commentary on: "Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected During Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from their First-Born Children 17 Years Later"

Autor/inn/en	Soares, Isabel; Baptista, Joana
Titel	Maternal Narratives Contribute to Foundations of the Child's Inner World. Commentary on: "Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected During Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from their First-Born Children 17 Years Later"
Quelle	In: International Journal of Developmental Science, 10 (2016) 3-4, S.129-130 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2192-001X
DOI	10.3233/DEV-16203
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Mothers; Attachment Behavior; Interviews; Adults; Pregnancy; Adolescents; Scores; Parent Influence; Child Development; Reflection; Emotional Response; Fathers; Parent Child Relationship; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; Birth Order; United Kingdom (London); Adult Attachment Interview + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schwangerschaft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kindesentwicklung; Emotionales Verhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland; Geburtenfolge
Abstract	In this commentary, Soares and Baptista state that the Steele, Perez, Segal, and Steele (2016) article contributed with an informative study that adolescents' reflective functioning (RF) is predicted by maternal attachment representation, which was assessed even before the youth were born by using the Adult Attachment Interview. The authors assert that there is reason to believe that maternal state of mind may contribute to the child's inner world not just via its effect on sensitivity, but in other ways, including through maternal conversations with the child. These findings seem to go in line with and provide further support to the view that from the earliest mother-child conversations, centered on the sharing of emotions and thoughts, children start to organize their inner world and give meaning to their experiences. Soares and Baptista question why fathers' state of mind was unrelated to adolescents' RF in the Steele et al. study. They hypothesize it may just be the case that both mothers and fathers influence a child's RF, but in a qualitatively different manner. These issues remain and, thus, future empirical work is clearly needed on transactional and parent-specific processes involved in the way children develop their inner world. [For "Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected During Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from their First-Born Children 17 Years Later," see EJ1142160.] (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01