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How do mothers with borderline personality disorder mentalize when interacting with their infants?
(2017-02-01)
Mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been theorized to have
decreased mentalization ability, which is the capacity to perceive and interpret
mental states. This could increase the risk for ...
Objective and subjective measures of sleep among preschoolers: Disentangling attachment security and dependency
Attachment and sleep among toddlers: disentangling attachment security and dependency.
(2015-03)
Many scholars have proposed that parent-child attachment security should favor child sleep. Research has yet, however, to provide convincing support for this hypothesis. The current study used objective measures of sleep ...
Associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep throughout early childhood
(2017-09-02)
Despite strong theoretical reasons to believe that the quality of parent-infant interactions
should influence child sleep, the empirical evidence for links between maternal behavior
and children’s sleep is equivocal. ...
Deconstructing maternal sensitivity: Predictive relations to mother-child attachment in home and laboratory settings
(2016-09-07)
Despite the well-documented importance of parental sensitivity for child development, there is a lack of consensus regarding how best to assess it. We investigated the factor structure of maternal caregiving behavior as ...
Maternal psychosocial maladjustment and child internalizing symptoms: Investigating the modulating role of maternal sensitivity
(2017-01)
In light of evidence suggesting that maternal adaptation may impact early child
emotional development, this study investigated the interactive effects of
maternal psychosocial maladjustment and maternal ...
Normative developmental trajectories of actigraphic sleep variables during the preschool period : a three-wave longitudinal study
Preschool sleep trajectories
(Wiley, 2018-02)
Important changes in sleep are believed to occur in the preschool years, but studies that have documented these changes were generally cross‐sectional or based on subjective sleep measures. The current longitudinal study ...
Stability in maternal autonomy support and child executive functioning
(2015-09)
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of early and current maternal autonomy support, and of its stability over time, in predicting child executive functioning (EF). Seventy-eight mother–child dyads participated ...
A secure base from which to regulate: Attachment security in toddlerhood as a predictor of executive functioning at school entry
(2015-09)
In light of emerging evidence suggesting that the affective quality of
parent-child relationships may relate to individual differences in young
children's executive functioning (EF) skills, the aim of this ...
Parent–child relationships and child executive functioning at school entry: the importance of fathers
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-21)
This study aimed to examine the unique and interactive contributions of the quality of mothers’
and fathers’ relationships with their toddlers to the prediction of children’s subsequent executive
functioning (EF). The ...
Reconsidering the links between sibship size, maternal sensitivity, and child attachment : a multidimensional interactive approach
Sibship size and maternal sensitivity
(American Psychological Association, 2018-04)
Despite being a well-documented predictor of children’s cognitive and social development, sibship has received remarkably little attention in the attachment and maternal sensitivity literature. The only study that has ...