TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations of maternal sensitivity and embodied mentalizing with infant-mother attachment security at one year in depressed and non-depressed dyads
AU - Væver, Mette Skovgaard
AU - Cordes, Katharina
AU - Stuart, Anne Christine
AU - Tharner, Anne
AU - Shai, Dana
AU - Spencer, Rose
AU - Smith-Nielsen, Johanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) captures the parent’s capacity to extrapolate the child’s mental states from movement and respond on a nonverbal level. Little is known about PEM’s relation to other established measures of parent-child interactive behavior, such as maternal sensitivity and attachment. This is investigated in a sample of four months old infants and mothers with (n = 27) and without a diagnosis of postpartum depression (n = 44). Video-recorded infant-mother interactions were coded independently using PEM and Coding Interactive Behavior. Attachment was assessed at 13 months using the Strange Situation Procedure. Sensitivity and PEM was positively associated, but only sensitivity predicted attachment security and only the nonclinical group. This indicates that PEM and sensitivity are moderately related as well as capturing different aspects of infant-mother interactions. The study confirms previous findings of sensitivity predicting attachment in nonclinical groups. More research is required to further understand predictors of attachment in clinical samples.
AB - Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) captures the parent’s capacity to extrapolate the child’s mental states from movement and respond on a nonverbal level. Little is known about PEM’s relation to other established measures of parent-child interactive behavior, such as maternal sensitivity and attachment. This is investigated in a sample of four months old infants and mothers with (n = 27) and without a diagnosis of postpartum depression (n = 44). Video-recorded infant-mother interactions were coded independently using PEM and Coding Interactive Behavior. Attachment was assessed at 13 months using the Strange Situation Procedure. Sensitivity and PEM was positively associated, but only sensitivity predicted attachment security and only the nonclinical group. This indicates that PEM and sensitivity are moderately related as well as capturing different aspects of infant-mother interactions. The study confirms previous findings of sensitivity predicting attachment in nonclinical groups. More research is required to further understand predictors of attachment in clinical samples.
KW - infant attachment security
KW - infant-mother Interaction
KW - maternal sensitivity
KW - parental embodied mentalizing
KW - Postpartum depression
U2 - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1861035
DO - 10.1080/14616734.2020.1861035
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33346693
AN - SCOPUS:85097861693
JO - Attachment & Human Development
JF - Attachment & Human Development
SN - 1461-6734
ER -