Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the transmission gap: A preliminary study

By A. Slade, J. Grienenberger, Elizabeth Bernbach, Dahlia W. Levy, Alison Locker. Attachment & Human Development, 2005

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What is mentalization? The concept and its foundations in developmental research (2012, background): “Slade and colleagues (Slade et al., 2005) also observed a strong relationship between attachment in the infant and the quality of the parent’s mentalizing about the child.”
The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire in Mothers and Fathers of School-Aged Children (2017, background): “The PRFQ includes 18 items divided into three subscales that measure PRF. Participants are asked to rate a series of statements regarding their child, which assess the parent’s curiosity about the child’s mental states; efforts to understand mental states and how they relate to behavior; and refusal”
The Association Between Reflective Functioning and Parent–Child Relationship Quality (2016, methodology): “functioning is a parent’s ability to treat the child as a psychological agent (Slade et al. 2005).”
Precursors of attachment security (2018, result): “Slade et al. (2005) reported similar results upon measuring a construct seemingly related to “mind-mindedness” labeled “reflective functioning” (RF: Fonagy et al., 1991), even showing in a pilot study that it mediates some of the effect of adult attachment on infant attachment.”