Mind-Mindedness in Parents of Looked-After Children

Autor/inn/en	Fishburn, Sarah; Meins, Elizabeth; Greenhow, Sarah; Jones, Christine; Hackett, Simon; Biehal, Nina; Baldwin, Helen; Cusworth, Linda; Wade, Jim
Titel	Mind-Mindedness in Parents of Looked-After Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 53 (2017) 10, S.1954-1965 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000304
Schlagwörter	Parents; Caregiver Child Relationship; Adoption; Comparative Analysis; Child Safety; Behavior Problems; Foster Care; Parent Child Relationship; Child Rearing; Child Care; Child Behavior; Infant Behavior; Preschool Children; Questionnaires; Screening Tests; Infants; Attachment Behavior; Caregivers; Statistical Analysis; Multivariate Analysis; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Eltern; Pflegehilfe; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindererziehung; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fragebogen; Screening-Verfahren; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Statistische Analyse; Multivariate Analyse; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The studies reported here aimed to test the proposal that mind-mindedness is a quality of personal relationships by assessing mind-mindedness in caregiver-child dyads in which the relationship has not spanned the child's life or in which the relationship has been judged dysfunctional. Studies 1 and 2 investigated differences in mind-mindedness between adoptive parents (ns = 89, 36) and biological parents from the general population (ns = 54, 114). Both studies found lower mind-mindedness in adoptive compared with biological parents. The results of Study 2 showed that this group difference was independent of parental mental health and could not fully be explained in terms of children's behavioral difficulties. Study 3 investigated differences in mind-mindedness in foster carers (n = 122), parents whose children had been the subject of a child protection plan (n = 172), and a community sample of biological parents (n = 128). The level of mind-mindedness in foster carers and parents who were involved with child protection services was identical and lower than that in the community sample; children's behavioral difficulties could not account for the difference between the 2 groups of biological parents. In all 3 studies, nonbiological carers' tendency to describe their children with reference to preadoption or placement experiences was negatively related to mind-mindedness. These findings are in line with mind-mindedness being a relational construct. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01