Elterliches Mentalisieren und psychosoziale Entwicklung von Kindern im Vorschulalter.

Autor/inn/en	Dees, Paula; Daniel, Hannah; Georg, Anna; Schwarzer, Nicola-Hans
Titel	Elterliches Mentalisieren und psychosoziale Entwicklung von Kindern im Vorschulalter. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Parental Reflective Functioning and Psychosocial Development in Preschool Children.
Quelle	In: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 74 (2025) 6, S. 503-520Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	deutsch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0032-7034; 2196-8225
DOI	10.13109/prkk.2025.74.6.503
Schlagwörter	Mentalisierung; Psychosoziale Entwicklung; Eltern; Kind; Vorschulalter; Einflussfaktor
Abstract	Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is considered an important predictor of children's emotion regulation and psychosocial development. In German-speaking countries, there is a lack of studies that focus on the preschool age, include both parents and consider children's emotion regulation as a mediator between PRF and psychosocial development. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyse the associations between PRF and child´s psychosocial development, taking emotion regulation as a mediator into account. Study 1 (78 mothers, 34 fathers; child's age M=4.25 years) showed that higher PRF was associated with fewer psychological difficulties and greater prosocial behavior in preschool-aged children. Study 2 (109 mothers, 21 fathers; child's age M=2.92 years) confirmed these findings, and based on preliminary results, identified children's emotion regulation as a potential mediator. Overall, the results suggest that both PRF and emotion regulation represent key targets for early preventive interventions aimed at promoting psychosocial development. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2026/3