Non-verbal and verbal parental mentalization as predictors of infant attachment security: Contributions of parental embodied mentalizing and mind-mindedness and the mediating role of maternal sensitivity |
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| Institution: | 1. Département de Psychoéducation, Université de Sherbrooke (Québec), Canada;2. School of Psychology, Université Laval (Québec), Canada;3. University Center for Research on Youth and Families (CRUJeF), (Québec), Canada;4. Groupe de recherche et d’intervention sur les adaptations sociales de l’enfance (GRISE), (Québec), Canada;1. Yale Child Study Center, USA;2. University of York, UK;3. University of Missouri, USA;4. Ryerson University, Canada;1. Université Laval École de psychologie, 2325 rue des Bibliothèques, Québec (QC), Canada G1V 0A6;2. University College London, Psychoanalysis Unit, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK;1. Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK;2. Department of Psychology and Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;1. Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;2. Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Research Priority Area Yield, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. Department of Nursing Sciences, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada;2. Department of Educational Fundamentals and Practices, Université Laval, Canada;3. Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, Université Laval, Canada;5. Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada;6. Centre d’études interdisciplinaires sur le développement de l’enfant et la famille, Canada;7. CERVO Brain Research Center, Canada;8. Interdisciplinary Research Center on Intimate Relationship Problems and Sexual Abuse, Canada;9. Groupe de recherche et d’intervention auprès de l’enfant vulnérable et négligé, Canada;1. Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Research priority area Yield, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Interest in studying the relative contributions of verbal (e.g., maternal mind-mindedness MM]) and non-verbal dimensions (i.e., parental embodied mentalizing PEM]) of parental mentalization to child socio-emotional development is relatively recent. To date, only one study has addressed this issue in relation to child attachment security, suggesting a complementary and unique contribution of each one. The purpose of the present study was to further examine the specific contribution of PEM to infant attachment security by considering MM. In addition, this study aimed to explore the mediating role of maternal sensitivity linking PEM, MM to infant attachment security within 110 mother-infant dyads at moderate psychosocial risk. The two dimensions of parental mentalization (PEM and MM) were assessed on the basis of observations made during a videorecorded sequence of mother-child interactions in a context of free play with and without toys when the infants were 8 months old. The Maternal Behavior Q-Sort was used to measure the mothers’ sensitivity in a natural setting based on observations of daily mother-child interactions, also when the infants were about 8 months old. Attachment security was measured using The Strange Situation Procedure at infant age 16 months. The results showed positive correlations between maternal sensitivity and both verbal and non-verbal measures of parental mentalization. The mediation analyses first revealed that PEM had a significant indirect effect on attachment security, with sensitivity being identified as a mediator in this association. No indirect effect linking MM and attachment security via sensitivity was observed. These results highlight the contribution of PEM to maternal sensitivity and show maternal sensitivity to be a factor that partly explains the influence of PEM on attachment security in children. |
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| Keywords: | Parental mentalization Parental embodied mentalizing Mind-mindedness Maternal sensitivity Attachment security |
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