Center for Research on Personality Development, Institute of Psychology, SWPS University, Poznań, Poland.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
PLoS One. 2024 Apr 17;19(4):e0299427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299427. eCollection 2024.
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to a parent's capacity to reflect on and understand the inner mental states of their child, their own mental states with regard to their child, and how these mental states may influence their behavior and interactions. This capacity has been shown to foster secure attachment in children and their socio-emotional development. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Polish translation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), a brief screening measure of PRF, in a large community sample of Polish mothers of children aged 0-5 years (N = 979). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized three-factor structure of the PRFQ, which consists of three subscales: prementalizing modes, certainty about mental states, and interest and curiosity in mental states. However, item loadings suggested that the 15-item version fitted the data better than the original 18-item version. These three PRFQ subscales exhibited satisfactory and moderate six-month test-retest reliability. They also correlated in theoretically expected ways with several criterion measures such as maternal attachment, maternal parenting stress, parental role restriction, depression severity, and borderline symptoms. In conclusion, this study is the first to provide preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the PRFQ as a measure of parental reflective functioning in Polish mothers.
父母反思功能（PRF）是指父母能够反思和理解孩子的内在心理状态、自己对孩子的心理状态，以及这些心理状态如何影响他们的行为和互动。这种能力已被证明可以促进儿童的安全依恋和社会情感发展。本研究在一个 0-5 岁儿童的波兰母亲大社区样本中（N=979），检验了父母反思功能问卷（PRFQ）的波兰语翻译版的心理测量特性，这是一种 PRF 的简短筛查测量工具。验证性因素分析支持了 PRFQ 的假设三因素结构，该结构由三个分量表组成：预心理化模式、心理状态的确定性以及对心理状态的兴趣和好奇心。然而，项目负荷表明，15 项版本比原始的 18 项版本更适合数据。这三个 PRFQ 分量表表现出令人满意和中等的六个月测试-重测信度。它们还以理论上预期的方式与几个标准测量指标相关，如母婴依恋、母亲育儿压力、父母角色限制、抑郁严重程度和边缘症状。总之，本研究首次提供了 PRFQ 作为波兰母亲父母反思功能测量工具的可靠性和有效性的初步证据。
