Jessica L Borelli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 650442 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica L Borelli |
| PRENOMES | Jessica L |
| SOBRENOME | Borelli |
| ASSINATURA | BORELLI J L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8471-6732 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Savoring the service
Latine communities have long faced stark health inequities and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare services. Community health workers (CHWs) serve as a key link between patients and the often-daunting healthcare system, providing crucial health education and support. Despite this important yet demanding role, little is known about CHWs’ personal experiences of community health promotion and how they might draw upon their work for strength a…
The Rewards and Stresses of Teaching for Infant and Toddler Educators
Emerging work on educator well-being highlights relational well-being, a new construct reflecting, in part, the quality of educators’ workplace relationships, as potentially central for supporting educators. Relational well-being is understudied in the context of educators’ stressors, as are educators’ experiences in the relationships central to their work – those with children, families, colleagues, supervisors - which comprise their relational …
Increasing Parental Well‐Being After the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Through Relational Savoring
Despite abundant evidence that the admission of an infant to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a highly stressful and potentially traumatic experience for both infants and parents, few psychosocial interventions target the needs of parents of NICU infants. In particular, interventions supporting parents beyond the initial medical crisis are notably lacking. Relational savoring (RS) is a brief, positive psychology intervention that attunes …
Relational Savoring as an Approach to Improve Marital Relationship Outcomes
Marital relationship quality is a strong predictor of overall health, making it a critical target for prevention and intervention efforts. In Iran, rapid cultural shifts have reshaped marital dynamics, highlighting the need for accessible psychological support. Relational Savoring (RS), a brief attachment-based program, aims to strengthen relationship quality by guiding individuals to re-experience moments of positive connectedness. The present s…
Detecting Aggression and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Risk in Unknown Men
This study examined college women's ability to detect aggression and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration risk in unknown men's dating profiles across three samples. Across studies, women accurately distinguished profiles characterized by high, moderate, and low levels of aggression, but showed greater difficulty differentiating between moderate and low levels of IPV perpetration risk. Women's IPV victimization histories and childhood mal…
Navigating shared stress
Preliminary evidence suggests that the stressors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the entire family system, necessitating a family-wide and culturally sensitive approach to understanding its impact. Little is known regarding the nuanced associations between pandemic stressors and the mental health of parents and youth, particularly among ethnic minority communities. In this study, we examine low income Latine families, who were adve…
Bipolar spectrum risk and social network dimensions in emerging adults
Introduction: Bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) encompass severe and chronic mood disorders associated with social functioning difficulties. However, little work has examined more nuanced aspects of social functioning in BSDs. Methods: This investigation recruited 1,934 emerging adult college students to examine associations of self-reported bipolar spectrum risk (including both BSD risk and current mania and depressive mood symptoms) with social…
Group‐Based Relational Savoring Intervention in Mothers of Young Children in Iran
Relational savoring, a prevention/intervention approach that involves reflecting on positive moments of connection with another person, promotes wellbeing in the parenting relationship. In this program, parents savor memories with strong attachment content (including Secure Base or Safe Haven memories), but it is currently unknown whether the benefits of relational savoring differ as a function of memory type. Within a sample of Iranian mothers o…
Infant and toddler teachers perspectives on interconnections between relationships and professional well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic
A growing body of research characterizes the stressful nature of early childhood teachers’ work with children and families, although less is known about the experiences of infant/toddler (I/T) teachers. This qualitative study aimed to explore infant/toddler teachers’ workplace stressors and workplace supports at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from interviews with 22 I/T teachers from a Midwestern state in the United Stat…
Attachment Insecurity and Partner Reflective Functioning in the Context of Long‐Distance Interracial Romantic Relationships
Partner reflective functioning—the capacity to understand the behaviors of a romantic partner in the context of mental states—is an important interpersonal psychological process that is associated with positive relationship outcomes. Attachment insecurity, a widely known risk factor for relationship outcomes, may be relevant for understanding interracial romantic relationship partner reflective functioning. Working with a sample of adults in long…
Maternal Emotion Regulation and Parenting
The psychological capacity for emotion regulation (ER) facilitates sensitive caregiving and fosters positive child outcomes. Parasympathetic regulation, indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), is an important physiological component of ER. While growing evidence supports the link between parents’ physiological ER and parenting behaviors, few studies distinguish parents’ global ER capacity from ER in parenting‐specific contexts, which can p…
The Dyadic Association of Testosterone With Perceived Social Support in Couples Across the Transition to Parenthood
Social support is associated with positive health outcomes and may be protective during sensitive life periods. Importantly, biological factors, including hormones, are associated with psychological and interpersonal functioning, but less is known about the link between biological factors and perceived social support during the transition to parenthood. The current study examined prenatal testosterone levels as a predictor of postpartum perceived…
Naïve Observers’ Perceptions of Hospitalized and Community Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms
15.31, henceforth referred to as targets). They reported on their depressive symptoms and completed the Child Attachment Interview (CAI; Shmueli-Goetz et al., 2008). Naïve observers (N = 52 college students split in two rounds), unaware of all other information about targets, read transcripts of targets' CAI interviews; using solely that information, they rated targets' depressive symptoms. Observers also assessed their confidence in their evalua…
Home‐based family recovery supports
Support for families affected by substance use disorders (SUDs) remains challenging, particularly during the postpartum period. The objective of this study was to assess the introduction of an evidence‐based parenting intervention, Mothering from the Inside Out (MIO), into the early intervention (EI) home visiting setting. We conducted a mixed methods pilot study in the United States to assess the training and delivery of MIO within EI. MIO train…
Adult attachment as a predictor of savoring quality in mothers of toddlers
Parental attachment is a robust predictor of parents' emotion regulation and parent-child interaction quality. However, little is known about how attachment representations influence parents' ability to engage in savoring, the process of attending to and prolonging positive emotional experiences. This study examined the association between maternal attachment and two aspects of savoring quality in the context of a large randomized controlled tria…
Culturally adapting relational savoring
Relational savoring (RS) is a brief, strengths‐based approach to heightening attentional focus to moments of positive connectedness within relationships. RS can be administered preventatively or within an intervention context when a therapist aspires to foster more optimal relational functioning. Typically administered within a one‐on‐one therapy setting, RS has demonstrated efficacy in enhancing intra‐ and interpersonal outcomes. To increase acc…
Attachment-Based Mentalization Profiles of Iranian Children
Mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning (RF), is the ability to understand one's own and another's mental world implicitly or explicitly. RF is a newly discovered research field in Iran and is largely under-studied in Eastern cultures in general, underscoring the high need for cross-cultural studies in this field of research. A qualitative method was used to examine the ability to understand, process, and respond to high-arousal …
Predicting fidelity and treatment outcomes in savoring interventions among mothers of young children
Savoring impacts parents’ emotions and parent–child relationship quality. Using data from a randomized controlled trial ( N = 164 mothers of 18–27‐month‐olds, 37 interveners) conducted with a community sample in the United States, this study examined predictors of fidelity and treatment outcomes across two savoring preventative interventions (relational savoring and personal savoring). Treatment outcome indicators were selected from a battery adm…
Covid-19 and the Latinx community
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the Latinx community, leading to heightened economic instability and increased mortality/morbidity. Frontline community health workers ( promotoras ) have played an integral role in serving low-income Latinx immigrant communities, disseminating health information to this vulnerable community while also facing heightened risks to their own health and wellbeing. This study explores the impact of the pandemic…
Mentalization in Typically and Atypically Developing Iranian Children and Its Associations with Age, Sex, and Externalizing/Internalizing Symptoms
Mentalization refers to the ability to understand the mental states of oneself and those of others that motivate action and behavior. Mentalization has generally been linked to adaptive development and healthy functioning whereas diminished mentalization has been associated with maladaptive development and psychopathology. The vast majority of research on mentalization and developmental trajectories, however, is based on Western countries. The ov…
Mother–child dyadic responses to children facing challenges
The current study (a) examined ethnic differences in mothers' and children's responses to children's performance in a challenging task, (b) tested the associations among children's desire for assistance, maternal control, and children's emotional responses to the challenge, and (c) explored whether these associations held across three ethnicities-Asian Americans (AA), Latinx Americans (LA), and European Americans (EA). Results showed that childre…
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners
This study recruited participants whose partners were deployed for active‐duty military service to examine whether anticipatory relational savoring moderated the association of psychological distress with relationship satisfaction. Two weeks prior to their partner's deployment (T1), participants ( N = 73) completed a self‐report measure of relationship satisfaction. Then, 2 weeks into their partner's deployment (T2), participants completed self‐r…
College Women’s Perceptions of Judgements on Aggression and Risk of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Potential Romantic Partners
Purpose This study examined whether female college students could accurately detect unknown male students’ propensity for aggression/intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in romantic relationships after viewing their online dating profile, as well as whether individual differences in women’s IPV victimization history or attachment orientation predicted their accuracy. Method Heterosexual adult males ( N = 9, M age = 23.40), selected from a…
Self‐report measure of parental reflective functioning
The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) provides an efficient way to measure a parent's capacity to recognize their child's mental states and to understand the relationship between underlying mental states and behavior. To date, limited work evaluates its psychometric properties beyond initial validation studies. Here we examined the reliability and validity of the PRFQ in three samples of varying clinical risk (e.g., community s…
Savoring interventions for mothers of young children
Parenting interventions can improve parenting outcomes, with widespread implications for children's developmental trajectories. Relational savoring (RS) is a brief attachment‐based intervention with high potential for dissemination. Here we examine data from a recent intervention trial in order to isolate the mechanisms by which savoring predicts reflective functioning (RF) at treatment follow‐up through an examination of the content of savoring …
Gender Differences in Work-Family Guilt in Parents of Young Children
Relational savoring in long-distance romantic relationships
Relationship satisfaction is crucial for health and happiness. In the absence of physical contact, people in long-distance romantic relationships (LDRs) may use alternate means of maintaining relationship satisfaction, such as mentally activating feelings of closeness to their partners. This experiment examined the effects of relational savoring, relative to two control conditions, on emotion and relationship satisfaction following a laboratory-b…
Self‐report measure of parental reflective functioning
The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) provides an efficient way to measure a parent's capacity to recognize their child's mental states and to understand the relationship between underlying mental states and behavior. To date, limited work evaluates its psychometric properties beyond initial validation studies. Here we examined the reliability and validity of the PRFQ in three samples of varying clinical risk (e.g., community s…
Reflective functioning, physiological reactivity, and overcontrol in mothers
Theorists argue that parental reflective functioning (PRF) is activated in response to emotions, potentially supporting parenting sensitivity even when arousal is high. That is, when parents become emotionally reactive when interacting with their children, those who can use PRF to understand their children's mental states should be able to parent sensitively, which, in turn, should promote children's ability to understand their own mental states.…
Mothering from the Inside Out
Emotionally avoidant language in the parenting interviews of substance‐dependent mothers
Parenting and emotion regulation are two known, and potentially interrelated, areas of impairment among substance‐abusing mothers. In this study, we examine substance ‐abusing mothers' (positive and negative) emotion language word use during their discussion of negative parenting experiences on the Parent Development Interview for its association with reflective functioning (RF), recent substance‐use history, and sensitivity to child cues. Within…
Convergence of naïve coders and participant report ratings of attachment to a former partner
Using a Brunswik lens framework, this study examined whether lay observers could accurately detect participants' attachment to a former partner following romantic breakup or divorce. We predicted that the ratings of post-breakup attachment (completed after reading participants' transcribed stream-of-consciousness discussions of the recent separation) would be associated with participants' self-reported ratings of attachment to a former partner an…
Maternal attachment insecurity and poorer proficiency savoring memories with their children
Relational savoring is the process of focusing one's attention on the pleasurable parts of a relationship experience, and recent work has explored its relation to attachment styles. This study examined the relationship between attachment insecurity and the quality of responses to a relational savoring task among 63 mothers of children aged 9-12, testing the hypothesis that rumination mediated the relationship between greater attachment insecurity…
Savoring interventions for mothers of young children
Parenting interventions can improve parenting outcomes, with widespread implications for children's developmental trajectories. Relational savoring (RS) is a brief attachment‐based intervention with high potential for dissemination. Here we examine data from a recent intervention trial in order to isolate the mechanisms by which savoring predicts reflective functioning (RF) at treatment follow‐up through an examination of the content of savoring …
Multidimensional discrimination distress, controlling parenting, and parent–adolescent attachment relationships
Parents have multifaceted identities, across dimensions like race/ethnicity, gender, and class, which shape their experience of discrimination. However, little is known about how distress from such multidimensional discrimination influences parenting behavior and parent-adolescent relationships. We tested associations between mothers' multidimensional discrimination distress and parental control (overcontrol and conditional regard) and daughters'…
I "get" you, babe
Reflective functioning (RF) is a construct that has gained tremendous traction in the developmental psychology literature, demonstrating robust associations with parent-child attachment and interactional quality. Although theorists argue that RF should have meaningful links with relationship quality across the life span, to date this construct has not been applied to the study of adult romantic partnerships. The goal of the present investigation …
Tolerance of Infant Distress Among Working Parents
SYNOPSISObjective. Working parents of young children often face work–family conflict, but little is known about the impact of this stressor on distress tolerance in the parenting role. We examined whether work–family conflict is associated with heightened work–family guilt and reduced infant distress tolerance, and we tested whether these effects are strongest among parents high in attachment anxiety. Design. In an experimental study of 233 paren…
Negative affect, childhood adversity, and adolescents' eating following stress
Higher maternal reflective functioning is associated with toddlers’ adaptive emotion regulation
Parental reflective functioning (RF), the ability to consider the child's behavior as a function of mental states (cognitions, emotions), is theorized to promote emotion regulation in children via its positive impact on parenting sensitivity. Using a sample of mothers and toddlers ( N = 151 dyads; 41% Latinx; 54% girls; M Age = 21 months; SD Age = 2.5 months), we measured mothers’ self‐reported RF (high RF = low certainty/high interest–curiosity/…
The Past is Present
SYNOPSISThis commentary explores potential mechanisms underlying the links between mothers’ attachment anxiety and levels of salivary alpha amylase in response to infant crying across levels of spouse support. The commentary argues that the current design cannot disentangle different explanations for the effects – whether they reflect general stress reactivity patterns or patterns occurring specifically in response to infant distress – and offers…
Language Matching Among Mother‐child Dyads
Links between mother‐infant affective matching and attachment security are well‐documented, but research on other types of behavioral matching and attachment security are lacking, as are studies that examine these constructs later in children's development. We examine language style matching (LSM) between mothers and their school‐aged children (N = 68), using interviews with each dyad member. As predicted, regressions revealed that higher mother‐…
Attachment and maternal sensitivity in middle childhood
According to theory, maternal sensitivity should be associated with attachment security in middle childhood. We measure two aspects of maternal sensitivity— affective understanding, a component of parental mentalization, and affective synchrony, a component of parental empathy. We tested our hypotheses within a diverse sample of school-aged children (48.6% female, M age = 10.27, SD age = 1.09) and their mothers ( N = 112 dyads) at baseline and af…
Being a Parent during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on people worldwide, yet the psychological impact of collective traumas may differ at the individual and societal level. Parents may be exposed to greater pandemic-related stressors, yet also are more likely than non-parents to have social interactions during social distancing mandates. Furthermore, varying degrees of pandemic severity in countries may alter the adverse outcomes of pandemic stress…
The development of toddlers’ emotion regulation within the family system
Secure Base Script Content Explains the Association Between Attachment Avoidance and Emotion-Related Constructs in Parents of Young Children
The secure base script (SBS) framework is one method of assessing implicit internal working models of attachment; recently, researchers have applied this method to analyze narratives regarding relationship experiences. This study examines the associations between attachment avoidance and SBS content when parents recall a positive moment of connection between themselves and their children (relational savoring) as well as their association with par…
A Longitudinal Examination of Toddlers’ Behavioral Cues as a Function of Substance-Abusing Mothers’ Disengagement
As a group, substance-abusing parents are at risk for maladaptive parenting. The association between substance abuse and parenting may result, in part, from parents' emotional disengagement from the parent-child relationship, which makes perceiving and responding to children's cues more challenging. In this study, we examined whether substance-abusing mothers' levels of disengagement from their relationship with their children (ages 2-44 months),…
Is it About Me, You, or Us? Stress Reactivity Correlates of Discrepancies in We-Talk Among Parents and Preadolescent Children
Adult attachment as a predictor of savoring quality in mothers of toddlers
Parental attachment is a robust predictor of parents' emotion regulation and parent-child interaction quality. However, little is known about how attachment representations influence parents' ability to engage in savoring, the process of attending to and prolonging positive emotional experiences. This study examined the association between maternal attachment and two aspects of savoring quality in the context of a large randomized controlled tria…
Predicting fidelity and treatment outcomes in savoring interventions among mothers of young children
Savoring impacts parents’ emotions and parent–child relationship quality. Using data from a randomized controlled trial ( N = 164 mothers of 18–27‐month‐olds, 37 interveners) conducted with a community sample in the United States, this study examined predictors of fidelity and treatment outcomes across two savoring preventative interventions (relational savoring and personal savoring). Treatment outcome indicators were selected from a battery adm…
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners
This study recruited participants whose partners were deployed for active‐duty military service to examine whether anticipatory relational savoring moderated the association of psychological distress with relationship satisfaction. Two weeks prior to their partner's deployment (T1), participants ( N = 73) completed a self‐report measure of relationship satisfaction. Then, 2 weeks into their partner's deployment (T2), participants completed self‐r…
Attachment and emotion in school-aged children
One of the primary functions of the attachment behavioral system is to regulate emotional experience under conditions of threat. Although research supports this association among infants and adults, few studies examine the relation between emotion and attachment in middle childhood. This study examined the concurrent associations among children's attachment organization and three indices of emotion reactivity/regulation: self- and parent-assessme…
Discrepancies in perceptions of maternal aggression
Despite a long history of documenting discrepancies in parent and child reports of parental care and child psychopathology, it has only been in recent years that researchers have begun to consider these discrepancies as meaningful indicators of parent-child relationship quality and as predictors of long-term child adjustment. Discrepancies in perceptions of parenting may be particularly important for the children of mothers with a history of subs…
Experiential connectedness in children's attachment interviews
Attachment classification derived from narrative analysis is widely used as a marker of psychological organization. In contrast to this top‐down approach, bottom‐up, word count–based analyses of narratives are also used to measure psychological states. The current study integrates these 2 approaches by examining their overlap in 93 school‐aged children. Participants completed the Child Attachment Interview; transcriptions of this interview were s…
Attachment dismissal predicts frontal slow-wave ERPs during rejection by unfamiliar peers
Attachment representations are thought to provide a cognitive-affective template, guiding the way individuals interact with unfamiliar social partners. To examine the neural correlates of this process, we sampled event-related potentials (ERPs) during exclusion by unfamiliar peers to differentiate insecure-dismissing from securely attached youth, as indexed by the child attachment interview. Thirteen secure and 10 dismissing 11- to 15-year-olds w…
Dismissing Children’s Perceptions of Their Emotional Experience and Parental Care
Emotionally avoidant language in the parenting interviews of substance‐dependent mothers
Parenting and emotion regulation are two known, and potentially interrelated, areas of impairment among substance‐abusing mothers. In this study, we examine substance ‐abusing mothers' (positive and negative) emotion language word use during their discussion of negative parenting experiences on the Parent Development Interview for its association with reflective functioning (RF), recent substance‐use history, and sensitivity to child cues. Within…
Language use in the Adult Attachment Interview
Adult attachment classification is traditionally based on qualitative coding of participants' discourse about their attachment history. Word count‐based analyses have proven useful for assessing emotional states from narrative. To expand the understanding of how language is used in emotion regulation processes related to attachment, the authors assess 102 college‐aged adults' language on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Autonomous adults use…
Parental Anxiety Prospectively Predicts Fearful Children’s Physiological Recovery from Stress
Reflective functioning moderates the association between perceptions of parental neglect and attachment in adolescence
Preliminary evidence suggests that reflective functioning (RF), or the ability to understand that mental states underlie behavior in the self and others (also called mentalizing), appears to be a protective factor against the development of psychopathology among adults who have experienced early abuse and neglect. The associations among early adverse experiences, RF, and attachment security have yet to be examined in adolescence. The aim of the p…
Cherish the good times
Savoring, or prolonging emotions associated with positive events, improves emotion and life satisfaction; little work, however, focuses on the savoring of interpersonal experiences, termed relational savoring . In a sample of 435 parents, the authors evaluated the impact of relational savoring on emotion and parent–child relationship satisfaction compared to a personal savoring and neutral control condition. Two years later, the authors reassesse…
Relational savoring in long-distance romantic relationships
Relationship satisfaction is crucial for health and happiness. In the absence of physical contact, people in long-distance romantic relationships (LDRs) may use alternate means of maintaining relationship satisfaction, such as mentally activating feelings of closeness to their partners. This experiment examined the effects of relational savoring, relative to two control conditions, on emotion and relationship satisfaction following a laboratory-b…
Language Matching Among Mother‐child Dyads
Links between mother‐infant affective matching and attachment security are well‐documented, but research on other types of behavioral matching and attachment security are lacking, as are studies that examine these constructs later in children's development. We examine language style matching (LSM) between mothers and their school‐aged children (N = 68), using interviews with each dyad member. As predicted, regressions revealed that higher mother‐…
Gender Differences in Work-Family Guilt in Parents of Young Children
Attachment and maternal sensitivity in middle childhood
According to theory, maternal sensitivity should be associated with attachment security in middle childhood. We measure two aspects of maternal sensitivity— affective understanding, a component of parental mentalization, and affective synchrony, a component of parental empathy. We tested our hypotheses within a diverse sample of school-aged children (48.6% female, M age = 10.27, SD age = 1.09) and their mothers ( N = 112 dyads) at baseline and af…
A Longitudinal Examination of Toddlers’ Behavioral Cues as a Function of Substance-Abusing Mothers’ Disengagement
As a group, substance-abusing parents are at risk for maladaptive parenting. The association between substance abuse and parenting may result, in part, from parents' emotional disengagement from the parent-child relationship, which makes perceiving and responding to children's cues more challenging. In this study, we examined whether substance-abusing mothers' levels of disengagement from their relationship with their children (ages 2-44 months),…
Examining Parents’ Romantic Attachment Styles and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms as Predictors of Caregiving Experiences
Evidence has suggested that parental romantic attachment style and depressive and anxiety symptoms are related to experiences of caregiving (Creswell, Apetroaia, Murray, & Cooper, 2013; Jones, Cassidy, & Shaver, 2014; Lovejoy, Graczyk, O'Hare, & Neuman, 2000), but more research is necessary to clarify the nature of these relations, particularly in the context of attachment‐salient events such as reunions. In a cross‐sectional study of 150 parents…
Is it About Me, You, or Us? Stress Reactivity Correlates of Discrepancies in We-Talk Among Parents and Preadolescent Children
Reflective functioning in parents of school-aged children
Parental reflective functioning (RF) has garnered tremendous support as a predictor of secure attachment in infancy, though little work has examined RF among parents of older children. In this study, we used a high-risk community sample of parent-child dyads (N = 117) to explore whether parental RF comprises self- and child-focused factors, whether parental RF is associated with parent and child attachment security, and whether parental RF mediat…
Children’s and mothers’ cardiovascular reactivity to a standardized laboratory stressor
Research documents bidirectional associations between parental overcontrol (OC) and children's anxiety; OC may place children at risk for anxiety and also may occur in response to children's requests for help. However, to date no studies have examined children's or parents' in-the-moment emotional responses to OC. Using a community sample of mothers and school-age children, we examine the individual and interactive influences of maternal OC, mate…
Secure Base Script Content Explains the Association Between Attachment Avoidance and Emotion-Related Constructs in Parents of Young Children
The secure base script (SBS) framework is one method of assessing implicit internal working models of attachment; recently, researchers have applied this method to analyze narratives regarding relationship experiences. This study examines the associations between attachment avoidance and SBS content when parents recall a positive moment of connection between themselves and their children (relational savoring) as well as their association with par…
Reflective functioning, physiological reactivity, and overcontrol in mothers
Theorists argue that parental reflective functioning (PRF) is activated in response to emotions, potentially supporting parenting sensitivity even when arousal is high. That is, when parents become emotionally reactive when interacting with their children, those who can use PRF to understand their children's mental states should be able to parent sensitively, which, in turn, should promote children's ability to understand their own mental states.…
Maternal attachment insecurity and poorer proficiency savoring memories with their children
Relational savoring is the process of focusing one's attention on the pleasurable parts of a relationship experience, and recent work has explored its relation to attachment styles. This study examined the relationship between attachment insecurity and the quality of responses to a relational savoring task among 63 mothers of children aged 9-12, testing the hypothesis that rumination mediated the relationship between greater attachment insecurity…
The effects of children’s proximity‐seeking to maternal attachment figures during mild stress exposure on mood and physiological responses
In this study we investigated the effects of seeking versus avoiding proximity to mother on children’s emotional recovery from a stressor. Sixty children 9–12 years underwent a moodinduction procedure and were randomly assigned to seek proximity from or avoid an image of their mothers. The effect of this manipulation on children’s self‐reported negative emotions, skin conductance and heart rate variability (respiratory sinus arhythmia) was assess…
Therapist–client language matching
7, 100% Caucasian women) enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of psychodynamic psychotherapy lasting 12 sessions, we examined client and therapist LSM across 4 of the 12 sessions. We found that, on average, LSM decreases over the course of treatment. Furthermore, greater client interpersonal problems prospectively predict lower early LSM in therapist-client dyads, which in turn predicts greater posttreatment psychiatric distress. Results gen…
Costs of Not Getting to Know You
Parental reflective functioning ( PRF ) is a robust predictor of parenting sensitivity and secure infant attachment, but its assessment requires extensive resources, limiting its integration into research and clinical practice. The Mini‐Parent Reflective Functioning Interview (Mini‐ PRFI ) assesses the parent's capacity to mentalize for his/her 6‐month‐old infant (rated using the PRF coding system; Slade et al., 2004, PRF coding system and Slade …
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