Journal article
Long-term sequelae of mothers' and fathers' mind-mindedness in infancy: A developmental path to children's attachment at age 10
Developmental psychology, Vol.55(4), pp.675-686
04/2019
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000660
PMCID: PMC6422742
PMID: 30525830
Abstract
Rapidly growing research on parental mind-mindedness, a tendency to treat one's young child as a psychological agent and an individual with a mind, internal mental states, and emotions, has demonstrated significant links among parents' mind-mindedness, their parenting, and multiple aspects of children's development. This prospective longitudinal study of 102 community mothers, fathers, and infants, followed from 7 months to 10 years, contributes to research on mind-mindedness by addressing several existing gaps and limitations. We examine mechanisms that account for associations between parents' early mind-mindedness and children's future attachment security, using robust behavioral measures. Teams of trained observers coded parents' mind-minded comments to their infants at 7 months during naturalistic interactions, parents' responsiveness in naturalistic interactions and in elicited imitation tasks at 15 months, and children's security, using Attachment Q-Set at 2 years and Iowa Attachment Behavioral Coding at 10 years. Sequential mediation analyses supported a model of a developmental path from parents' appropriate mind-minded comments in infancy to children's security at age 10. For mothers and children, the path was mediated first through responsiveness at 15 months and then security at 2 years. For fathers and children, the path was mediated through attachment security at 2 years. Parents' nonattuned mind-minded comments had no effects on responsiveness or security. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Title: Subtitle
- Long-term sequelae of mothers' and fathers' mind-mindedness in infancy: A developmental path to children's attachment at age 10
- Creators
- Jane E Miller - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaSanghag Kim - Department of Sociology, Hanyang UniversityLea J Boldt - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaKathryn C Goffin - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaGrazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.55(4), pp.675-686
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1037/dev0000660
- PMID
- 30525830
- PMCID
- PMC6422742
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Grant note
- K02 MH001446 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 HD069171 / NICHD NIH HHS National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 HD091047 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 MH063096 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2019
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002585402771
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