Day-to-day fluctuations in parental reflective functioning: The role of parenting stress and perceived adolescent difficulties / Simon FIORE in Development and Psychopathology, 38-2 (May 2026)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 38-2 (May 2026) . - p.912-924 Titre : Day-to-day fluctuations in parental reflective functioning: The role of parenting stress and perceived adolescent difficulties Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Simon FIORE, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Nele FLAMANT, Auteur ; Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Bart SOENENS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.912-924 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Adolescence  adoption  day-to-day fluctuations  parental reflective functioning  parenting Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental reflective functioning – parents’ capacity to envision the mental states underlying their child’s behavior – plays an important role in parenting behavior, parental well-being, and children’s psychosocial outcomes. Most studies have examined parental reflective functioning in terms of relatively stable interindividual differences between parents. This is unfortunate because theoretical accounts suggest that this capacity is susceptible to intraindividual fluctuations. Parenting stress, in particular that associated with difficult child behavior, has been described as a factor that can put parental reflective functioning under pressure. Using a multilevel approach, this 7-day diary study investigated day-to-day fluctuations in parental reflective functioning and its associations with daily parenting stress and perceived internalizing and externalizing adolescent difficulties. Parents of community adolescents (N = 128) and adopted adolescents (N = 28) were sampled because adoptive parents face unique stressors that may challenge their reflective capacities. Results indicated that daily parenting stress was associated with more daily prementalizing (i.e., severely biased mentalizing), less daily certainty about mental states, and less interest and curiosity in the adolescent’s mental states. Whereas externalizing difficulties were similarly related to more daily prementalizing and less certainty about mental states, findings for internalizing difficulties were mixed. Most associations were consistent across biological and adoptive parents. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100849 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=586 [article] Day-to-day fluctuations in parental reflective functioning: The role of parenting stress and perceived adolescent difficulties [texte imprimé] / Simon FIORE, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Nele FLAMANT, Auteur ; Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Bart SOENENS, Auteur . - p.912-924. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 38-2 (May 2026) . - p.912-924 Mots-clés : Adolescence  adoption  day-to-day fluctuations  parental reflective functioning  parenting Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental reflective functioning – parents’ capacity to envision the mental states underlying their child’s behavior – plays an important role in parenting behavior, parental well-being, and children’s psychosocial outcomes. Most studies have examined parental reflective functioning in terms of relatively stable interindividual differences between parents. This is unfortunate because theoretical accounts suggest that this capacity is susceptible to intraindividual fluctuations. Parenting stress, in particular that associated with difficult child behavior, has been described as a factor that can put parental reflective functioning under pressure. Using a multilevel approach, this 7-day diary study investigated day-to-day fluctuations in parental reflective functioning and its associations with daily parenting stress and perceived internalizing and externalizing adolescent difficulties. Parents of community adolescents (N = 128) and adopted adolescents (N = 28) were sampled because adoptive parents face unique stressors that may challenge their reflective capacities. Results indicated that daily parenting stress was associated with more daily prementalizing (i.e., severely biased mentalizing), less daily certainty about mental states, and less interest and curiosity in the adolescent’s mental states. Whereas externalizing difficulties were similarly related to more daily prementalizing and less certainty about mental states, findings for internalizing difficulties were mixed. Most associations were consistent across biological and adoptive parents. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100849 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=586

A four-year multi-wave prospective study on the role of parental reflective functioning and parenting stress in the development of socio-emotional problems in internationally adopted children / Saskia MALCORPS in Development and Psychopathology, 36-1 (February 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 36-1 (February 2024) . - p.266-279 Titre : A four-year multi-wave prospective study on the role of parental reflective functioning and parenting stress in the development of socio-emotional problems in internationally adopted children Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Peter FONAGY, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.266-279 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : adoption  mentalizing  parental reflective functioning  parenting  stress Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental reflective functioning (PRF) plays a protective role in the development of children with histories of early adversity, including adopted children. This is the first study to investigate the developmental trajectories of PRF and children s socio-emotional problems in the first 4 years after international adoption (N = 48 families, mean age (T1) = 20.7 months) and to examine the mediating role of parenting stress in the relation between PRF and child socio-emotional problems. Multilevel modeling indicated that age at adoption and parent gender moderated the development of PRF and child socio-emotional problems. Moreover, decreases in PRF were associated with more socio-emotional problems in the children. These relations were mediated by parenting stress, and particularly feelings of incompetence and marital dissatisfaction. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422001171 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=523 [article] A four-year multi-wave prospective study on the role of parental reflective functioning and parenting stress in the development of socio-emotional problems in internationally adopted children [texte imprimé] / Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Peter FONAGY, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur . - p.266-279. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 36-1 (February 2024) . - p.266-279 Mots-clés : adoption  mentalizing  parental reflective functioning  parenting  stress Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental reflective functioning (PRF) plays a protective role in the development of children with histories of early adversity, including adopted children. This is the first study to investigate the developmental trajectories of PRF and children s socio-emotional problems in the first 4 years after international adoption (N = 48 families, mean age (T1) = 20.7 months) and to examine the mediating role of parenting stress in the relation between PRF and child socio-emotional problems. Multilevel modeling indicated that age at adoption and parent gender moderated the development of PRF and child socio-emotional problems. Moreover, decreases in PRF were associated with more socio-emotional problems in the children. These relations were mediated by parenting stress, and particularly feelings of incompetence and marital dissatisfaction. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422001171 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=523

Mentalizing under maternal stress: Using a baby simulator to investigate the impact of child-focused distress on maternal mentalizing and arousal / Saskia MALCORPS in Development and Psychopathology, 38-2 (May 2026)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 38-2 (May 2026) . - p.539-551 Titre : Mentalizing under maternal stress: Using a baby simulator to investigate the impact of child-focused distress on maternal mentalizing and arousal Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Helena J.V. RUTHERFORD, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.539-551 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Attachment  baby simulator  mentalizing  parenting stress  trauma Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental mentalizing, or the parent’s capacity to think about the child as having an inner psychological world, has been shown to play an important role in sensitive parenting and child socioemotional development. Studies suggest that high levels of stress impair (parental) mentalizing, yet surprisingly few studies have experimentally investigated this. The present study aimed to address this gap by investigating the impact of child-focused stress on parental mentalizing measured using a newly developed self-report questionnaire, following an experimental design with a computer-controlled baby simulator in a sample of 29 community mothers. Both subjective arousal, measured by a self-report item, and biological arousal, assessed through galvanic skin response, were measured throughout the experiment. Attachment dimensions, childhood trauma, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) features were assessed at baseline. Results demonstrated that the induction of child-focused stress was associated with an increase in parental mentalizing difficulties. Increases in mentalizing difficulties were, in turn, associated with increases in subjective and biological arousal following the simulator task. Finally, attachment anxiety and childhood trauma were positively correlated with both arousal and parental mentalizing difficulties in the simulator task, whereas attachment avoidance and BPD features were not. The implications of these findings for early intervention are discussed. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100424 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=586 [article] Mentalizing under maternal stress: Using a baby simulator to investigate the impact of child-focused distress on maternal mentalizing and arousal [texte imprimé] / Saskia MALCORPS, Auteur ; Nicole VLIEGEN, Auteur ; Helena J.V. RUTHERFORD, Auteur ; Patrick LUYTEN, Auteur . - p.539-551. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 38-2 (May 2026) . - p.539-551 Mots-clés : Attachment  baby simulator  mentalizing  parenting stress  trauma Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Parental mentalizing, or the parent’s capacity to think about the child as having an inner psychological world, has been shown to play an important role in sensitive parenting and child socioemotional development. Studies suggest that high levels of stress impair (parental) mentalizing, yet surprisingly few studies have experimentally investigated this. The present study aimed to address this gap by investigating the impact of child-focused stress on parental mentalizing measured using a newly developed self-report questionnaire, following an experimental design with a computer-controlled baby simulator in a sample of 29 community mothers. Both subjective arousal, measured by a self-report item, and biological arousal, assessed through galvanic skin response, were measured throughout the experiment. Attachment dimensions, childhood trauma, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) features were assessed at baseline. Results demonstrated that the induction of child-focused stress was associated with an increase in parental mentalizing difficulties. Increases in mentalizing difficulties were, in turn, associated with increases in subjective and biological arousal following the simulator task. Finally, attachment anxiety and childhood trauma were positively correlated with both arousal and parental mentalizing difficulties in the simulator task, whereas attachment avoidance and BPD features were not. The implications of these findings for early intervention are discussed. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100424 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=586

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