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Validating the parental reflective functioning questionnaire - infant version using a rasch model.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.70004

Anne Christine Stuart, Ida Egmose, Katrine Isabella Wendelboe, Johanne Smith-Nielsen, Mette Skovgaard Væver

{"title":"Validating the parental reflective functioning questionnaire - infant version using a rasch model.","authors":"Anne Christine Stuart, Ida Egmose, Katrine Isabella Wendelboe, Johanne Smith-Nielsen, Mette Skovgaard Væver","doi":"10.1002/imhj.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.70004","url":null,"abstract":"Parental reflective functioning is the parent's ability to reflect on the psychological processes in their child and in themselves as a parent. Recently, an infant version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, PRFQ-I, has been developed and validated using confirmatory factor analyses. The present study aims to validate the PRFQ-I using a Rasch model in a sample of 531 Danish mothers at risk of depression and their infants aged 2-11 months. Our findings indicate that seven response categories were too many for the mothers to distinguish across all items. Prementalizing showed adequate psychometric properties, while Certainty of Mental States and Interest and Curiosity required recoding with 4 and 5 as the optimal scores, respectively. After rescoring, both subscales overall showed adequate psychometric properties. However, shortening Certainty of Mental States may be advisable due to local dependency between items 8 and 17. Additionally, items 2 and 14 (\"I always know what my child wants\" and \"I always know why I do what I do to my child\") may function better as a separate subscale. We recommend that scores on both Certainty of Mental States and Interest and Curiosity should be analyzed and interpreted in a curvilinear rather than linear manner.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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One state's journey with a reflective supervision professional development series: Development, implementation, and adaptation.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22165

Rebecca B Silver, Christine M Low, Lindsay Huffhines, Rebecca Newland, Rachel Herman, Stephanie H Parade

{"title":"One state's journey with a reflective supervision professional development series: Development, implementation, and adaptation.","authors":"Rebecca B Silver, Christine M Low, Lindsay Huffhines, Rebecca Newland, Rachel Herman, Stephanie H Parade","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22165","url":null,"abstract":"Reflective supervision (RS) has been viewed as best practice and is therefore incorporated-and often mandated-as a key feature of many relationship-based infant and early childhood serving programs. To promote the implementation of high-quality RS for infant and early childhood professionals, it is critical that a focus is placed on how infant and early childhood professionals are trained to build RS capacities. To this end, we describe Rhode Island, United States's journey developing, implementing, and iteratively adapting an RS professional development series. We describe the structure of the curricula as well as the content and learning objectives, which strive to bridge the gap between the theoretical concepts foundational to RS, process-oriented self-reflection, and the practical application of RS skills and strategies. We also outline the development and process of iterative adaptation that has refined the curricula over the past decade. Finally, we chronicle the history of coordination and collaboration that promoted the development and implementation of this series, which has been disseminated within home visiting and early care and education settings. This narrative can serve as a model for organizations, systems, and states that are undertaking efforts to provide professional development focused on RS.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intergenerational impacts of racial discrimination on child executive functioning problems.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-26 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22161

Nia R Barbee, Anne L Dunlop, Elizabeth Corwin, Patricia A Brennan

{"title":"Intergenerational impacts of racial discrimination on child executive functioning problems.","authors":"Nia R Barbee, Anne L Dunlop, Elizabeth Corwin, Patricia A Brennan","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22161","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed study sought to investigate whether maternal experiences of racial discrimination and gendered racial stress are associated with offspring executive functioning. Total 266 Black mother-child pairs in the United States were assessed from pregnancy through child age of 4 years. We hypothesized that children whose mothers reported higher rates of perceived gendered racial stress during pregnancy and racial discrimination throughout their lifetime would have lower scores on executive functioning assessments. Furthermore, we hypothesized that low maternal education and income would act as risk moderators whereas social support would act as a protective moderator in the associations between maternal experiences of discrimination (EOD) and child executive functioning. Main effect findings support our hypothesis of an intergenerational association between maternal EOD and gendered racial stress and lower child executive functioning scores. Income was a significant moderator. As hypothesized, the association between mothers reports of lifetime discrimination and lower child executive functioning scores was stronger at lower levels of income. In contrast, however, the association between maternal prenatal reports of gendered racial stress and lower child executive functioning scores was stronger at higher levels of maternal education and income. Social support did not have a significant moderating effect on any of the association.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transaction of parental cognition, stress and depressive symptoms, and infant regulatory challenges.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22160

Agnes Bohne, Ragnhild Sørensen Høifødt, Dag Nordahl, Vibeke Moe, Inger Pauline Landsem, Unni Tranaas Vannebo, Siri Langmoen Holstad, Catharina E Arfwedson Wang, Gerit Pfuhl

{"title":"Transaction of parental cognition, stress and depressive symptoms, and infant regulatory challenges.","authors":"Agnes Bohne, Ragnhild Sørensen Høifødt, Dag Nordahl, Vibeke Moe, Inger Pauline Landsem, Unni Tranaas Vannebo, Siri Langmoen Holstad, Catharina E Arfwedson Wang, Gerit Pfuhl","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22160","url":null,"abstract":"Parental cognitions, stress, depression, and infant regulatory challenges might reinforce each other in the early parent-infant relationship. A transactional model was used as a framework to investigate these relationships. Two hundred and twenty pregnant women and their partners were recruited during pregnancy and followed 7 months postnatally in the NorBaby study in Norway. To investigate risk and protective factors for parental stress and depressive symptoms at 2, 5, and 7 months postnatally, the following variables were entered antenatally: repetitive negative thinking, implicit associations to infants, parity, and social support. Postnatally, observed infant regulatory challenges at 2 months, parent's perception of infant temperament at 5 months, and signs of infant social withdrawal at 7 months. The model yielded that repetitive negative thinking predicted parenting stress and depressive symptoms, while infant regulatory challenges did not. Repetitive negative thinking is also related to infant temperament. For mothers, parity was beneficial against stress, depressive symptoms, and infant regulatory challenges. Implicit associations to infants were not related to parenting stress or depressive symptoms postnatally. Parenting stress and depressive symptoms were not related to infant social withdrawal at 7 months. In sum, how parents perceive their infant's temperament is associated with their own tendency to engage in repetitive negative thinking, and not by their infant's observed regulatory behavior. Accordingly, parental cognition and well-being should be considered when families struggle to adapt in the perinatal period.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Young mothers' prenatal attachment and later attachment-related representations of their young children.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22162

Nora Y Medina, Renee C Edwards, Sydney L Hans

{"title":"Young mothers' prenatal attachment and later attachment-related representations of their young children.","authors":"Nora Y Medina, Renee C Edwards, Sydney L Hans","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22162","url":null,"abstract":"Although mother-to-infant attachment begins during pregnancy, few studies have explored correlates of prenatal attachment and associations with later measures of attachment representations. This study explored whether prenatal attachment is related to attachment representations during toddlerhood and whether associations between them reflect the broader quality of mothers' relationships. Young, ethnically/racially diverse, low-income American women (n = 160) were followed from pregnancy through 30 months postpartum. Questionnaires assessed prenatal attachment (Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale [MAAS]) and mothers' relationships prenatally (Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment [IPPA]; Social Provisions Scale [SPS]). At 30 months, the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI) assessed attachment representation classifications (balanced, disengaged, distorted) and affective themes. Stronger prenatal attachment was associated with balanced representations of the child, greater positive affect, and less negative affect at 30 months, even when accounting for quality of mothers' other relationships. Relationship quality generally and with the parent figure and infant's father specifically, was associated with prenatal attachment, and relationship quality with the parent figure was related to 30-month attachment representations. Findings support theory that mother-to-child attachment formed during pregnancy contributes to attachment representations and affective qualities of the relationship years later. Data highlight the role young mothers' parent figures play during the transition to parenthood.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bridging attachment theory and interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory in the strange situation procedure in a low-risk sample in Egypt. 在埃及低风险样本的陌生情境程序中，连接依恋理论与人际接受-拒绝理论。

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22159

Nour M Zaki, Maya A Shehata

{"title":"Bridging attachment theory and interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory in the strange situation procedure in a low-risk sample in Egypt.","authors":"Nour M Zaki, Maya A Shehata","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22159","url":null,"abstract":"This study is the first to explore the relation between children's attachment classifications, assessed by Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure (SSP), and mothers' acceptance-rejection behaviors from the lens of Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPARTheory). As a pilot study, the sample consisted of 23 Egyptian mother-child dyads. The mean age of children in the SSP was 18.6 months (SD = 3.10). Mothers' acceptance-rejection behaviors were explored through the Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire (PARQ/Control). The pilot study's findings revealed that maternal acceptance-rejection behaviors significantly differed across children's attachment classifications. The findings also shed light on gender differences in parenting, as mothers tended to show a higher level of hostility/aggression, undifferentiated rejection, and control with their daughters more than sons. This study is an important stepping-stone for attachment research in the Arab world. It highlights several cultural aspects to be taken into account for future research using the SSP in Egypt or any other Arab country.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The undertold story: A leadership program to expand recognition of the importance of early childhood experiences.

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22155

Sarah Hinshaw, Julianna Finelli, Lindsay Usry, Camille Knable, Geoffrey Nagle, Charles H Zeanah

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Parents' reflective functioning and stress: The associations with preschoolers' social understanding. 父母反思功能与压力：与学龄前儿童社会理解的关系。

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22164

Emiddia Longobardi, Mara Morelli, Matilde Brunetti, Stefania Sette, Pietro Spataro, Fiorenzo Laghi

{"title":"Parents' reflective functioning and stress: The associations with preschoolers' social understanding.","authors":"Emiddia Longobardi, Mara Morelli, Matilde Brunetti, Stefania Sette, Pietro Spataro, Fiorenzo Laghi","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22164","url":null,"abstract":"Social understanding competence develops in sensitive and co-regulating caregiver interactions. Parental reflective functioning (PRF) and parenting stress can affect children's social understanding. This study investigated if children's social understanding was associated with PRF and parenting stress. Parents of 305 Italian children aged from 24 to 72 months (M = 48.2, SD = 13.9; 47.9% girls) completed an online survey. Parents completed the following questionnaire: The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, and the Children's Social Understanding Scale. Results showed that children's social understanding was predicted by lower parenting stress, b = .002, p = .017, and parent's interest and curiosity about the child's mental states, b = .07, p = .013. Findings confirm that high levels of parenting stress and low PRF constitute unfavorable conditions for preschoolers' socio-cognitive development. Thus, the present study can have implication for interventions aimed at improving children's social understanding that should focus on reducing parenting stress and enhancing parental mentalizing.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unveiling complexities: Examining the role of traumatic loss in shaping the interplay between black maternal mental health and maternal bonding. 揭开复杂性：检查创伤性损失在塑造黑人母亲心理健康和母亲关系之间的相互作用中的作用。

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22156

Helenia Quince, Tova Walsh, Alvin Thomas, Dalvery Blackwell

{"title":"Unveiling complexities: Examining the role of traumatic loss in shaping the interplay between black maternal mental health and maternal bonding.","authors":"Helenia Quince, Tova Walsh, Alvin Thomas, Dalvery Blackwell","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22156","url":null,"abstract":"Black women are more likely to experience traumatic birthing events, more likely to experience perinatal depression, and less likely to receive mental health treatment than women of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, and yet largely overlooked in perinatal mental health research. This pilot study seeks to understand how unacceptable racial disparities and adverse perinatal outcomes influence Black maternal depression and maternal bonding by exploring how prior traumatic loss moderates the relationship between depression and bonding during a subsequent pregnancy among a sample of Black mothers. We use survey data collected from 75 Black mothers as part of the Black Fathers, Equal Partners in Promoting Maternal and Infant Health study, a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Madison and the African American Breastfeeding Network in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Study results suggest there is a correlation between maternal depression and bonding; when traumatic loss is included as an interaction variable, it produces a moderating effect, changing the direction of the relationship between bonding and depression. As maternal depression increases, bonding increases when moderated by the variable traumatic loss. This finding has important implications for infant mental health research and practice, disrupting the expectation that depression necessarily poses a risk to maternal-infant bonding.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Holding up the mirror: The role of teacher educators and syllabi in perpetuating or disrupting inequity. 举起镜子：教师、教育者和教学大纲在延续或破坏不平等中的作用。

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Infant Mental Health Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1002/imhj.22158

Ruby Batz, Melissa C Walter, Melissa M Burnham, Lisa B Fiore

{"title":"Holding up the mirror: The role of teacher educators and syllabi in perpetuating or disrupting inequity.","authors":"Ruby Batz, Melissa C Walter, Melissa M Burnham, Lisa B Fiore","doi":"10.1002/imhj.22158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22158","url":null,"abstract":"This blended pilot-empirical and theoretical manuscript documents a reflective journey undertaken by a group of early childhood teacher educators located across different regions of the United States as they examined their course design, materials, and syllabi construction. Grounded in reflective practice, intersectionality, and critical pedagogy, their collaborative endeavor necessitated profound self-examination and recognition of oppressive structures inherent within the field and reproduced throughout course syllabi, thereby perpetuating societal inequities inside and outside the classroom context. Their iterative, evolving effort resembled a reflective consultation group, marked by continuous self-reflection, challenging assumptions, and transforming actions, vividly portrayed in their vignettes. A nonlinear spiral model emerged as a visual representation of the multiple entry points into an ongoing process-highlighting access points that encourage curiosity and interrogation of academic syllabi and course content. The inclusive nature of this inquiry invites faculty members and practitioners to confront racism, ableism, and other systems of domination, amplify marginalized scholarship, and redefine early childhood education-related fields, including the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health landscape. It also underscores the imperative of sustained introspection and collaborative action in nurturing equity.","PeriodicalId":48026,"journal":{"name":"Infant Mental Health Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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