Cooke Dawson, Priddis Lynn, Luyten Patrick, Kendall Garth, Cavanagh Robert
Curtin University.
Edith Cowan University.
Infant Ment Health J. 2017 Sep;38(5):561-574. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21664. Epub 2017 Aug 21.
While past research on the care of infants has been mostly with mothers, in recent times there has been a renewed attention to the father-infant relationship. This study examined differences between mother and father parental reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing; that is, the parental capacity to reason about their own and their children's behaviors by taking into consideration intentional mental states. Data were collected from 120 couples with a 1-year-old child who were participants in the West Australian Peel Child Health Study. Parental mentalizing was assessed using the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten, Mayes, Nijssens, & Fonagy, ). Results showed that mother and father mentalizing with their children was independent and that mothers scored slightly higher levels of mentalizing than did fathers. Paternal mentalizing was weakly associated with family income and father education, and was more strongly associated with family functioning than with maternal mentalizing. Implications for theorizing on PRF and fatherhood more generally are discussed.
虽然过去关于婴儿护理的研究大多围绕母亲展开，但近年来，人们对父亲与婴儿的关系重新给予了关注。本研究考察了母亲和父亲的父母反思功能（PRF）或父母心智化的差异；也就是说，父母通过考虑有意的心理状态来推断自己和孩子行为的能力。数据收集自参与西澳大利亚皮尔儿童健康研究的120对育有1岁孩子的夫妇。使用父母反思功能问卷（PRFQ；吕滕、梅斯、奈森斯和 Fonagy编制）对父母心智化进行评估。结果显示，母亲和父亲与孩子的心智化是独立的，且母亲的心智化得分略高于父亲。父亲的心智化与家庭收入和父亲受教育程度呈弱相关，与家庭功能的关联比与母亲心智化的关联更强。本文还讨论了对更广泛的父母反思功能理论及父性理论的启示。
