Wildner Andreas S, Küçükakyüz Su Mevsim, Marx Anton K G, Nolte Tobias, Reck Corinna, Fonagy Peter, Luyten Patrick, von Tettenborn Alexandra, Müller Mitho, Zietlow Anna-Lena, Woll-Weber Christian F J
Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence & Counseling Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Clinical, Education & Health Psychology, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2024 Dec 4;19(12):e0314074. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314074. eCollection 2024.
Parental Reflective Functioning describes the parents' ability to view their child as motivated by mental states. The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) represents an 18-item and three-factor self-report measure. Our goal was to conduct the first German validation study.
In a community sample of 378 mothers of children aged 10.2-78.6 months, we used Confirmatory Factor Analysis with a cross-validation approach to assess model fit. Reliability was measured using Cronbach's α and McDonald's ω. Concurrent validity was assessed using correlations with relevant constructs.
The three-factor structure of the original validation could be confirmed. The German model only needed minor modifications: two items had to be removed, and one error covariance was added. The resulting 16-item questionnaire with the three subscales "Pre-mentalizing", "Interest and Curiosity about Mental States", and "Certainty about Mental States" was successfully cross-validated (CFI = .94, TLI = .93, SRMR = .07, RMSEA = .04 (CI [.01, .06])). These factors were related in theoretically expected ways to parental attachment dimensions, emotional availability, parenting stress, and infant attachment status.
While reliability could still be improved, the German 16-item version of the PRFQ represents a valid measure of parental reflective functioning.
父母反思功能描述了父母将孩子视为受心理状态驱动的能力。父母反思功能问卷(PRFQ)是一项包含18个项目的三因素自陈式量表。我们的目标是开展首次德语版的效度验证研究。
在一个由378名10.2至78.6个月大孩子的母亲组成的社区样本中,我们采用交叉验证方法进行验证性因素分析以评估模型拟合度。使用克朗巴哈α系数和麦克唐纳ω系数来测量信度。通过与相关构念的相关性来评估同时效度。
原始效度验证的三因素结构得以确认。德语版模型只需进行微小修改:删除两个项目,并添加一个误差协方差。由此得到的包含“前心理化”“对心理状态的兴趣和好奇”以及“对心理状态的确定性”这三个分量表的16项问卷成功通过交叉验证(CFI = 0.94,TLI = 0.93,SRMR = 0.07,RMSEA = 0.04(95%置信区间[0.01, 0.06]))。这些因素在理论预期的方式上与父母依恋维度、情感可及性、育儿压力和婴儿依恋状态相关。
虽然信度仍可进一步提高,但德语版16项的PRFQ是父母反思功能的有效测量工具。