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Assessing reflective functioning in prospective adoptive parents
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 1, p e0245852 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- The capacity for reflective functioning (RF) or mentalizing of adoptive parents is hypothesized to play an important role in fostering socio-emotional development in adopted children. This paper reports on the development and preliminary validation of the Adoption Expectations Interview (AEI), a semi-structured interview to assess RF in prospective adoptive parents. The AEI was developed based on the Pregnancy Interview, Parent Development Interview, and Working Model of the Child Interview, three interviews that have been used to assess RF in biological parents, to capture RF before child arrival in prospective adoptive parents. In a sample of 96 prospective adoptive parents, the Reflective Functioning Scale, as applied to the AEI (AEI-RFS) showed good reliability, with strong correlations between the different demand items, high internal consistency, and good to excellent inter-rater reliability. A principal component analysis yielded one component, suggesting that the items measured a unidimensional factor. Preliminary evidence for the construct validity of the AEIRFS was demonstrated by significant associations between the AEI-RFS and well-validated measures of mentalizing, attachment dimensions, and interpersonal functioning. ispartof: Plos One vol:16 issue:1 pages:1-16 ispartof: location:United States status: published
- Subjects :
- Questionnaires
Male
Parents
Maternal Health
Social Sciences
050109 social psychology
Developmental psychology
Families
Fathers
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Pregnancy
Surveys and Questionnaires
Internal consistency
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Children
Reliability (statistics)
Principal Component Analysis
Multidisciplinary
Statistics
05 social sciences
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Design
Scale (social sciences)
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Female
Research Article
050104 developmental & child psychology
Adult
Social Psychology
Science
Parenting Behavior
Mothers
Interpersonal communication
Research and Analysis Methods
Mentalization
Adoption
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Statistical Methods
Behavior
Survey Research
Biology and Life Sciences
Construct validity
Age Groups
People and Places
Multivariate Analysis
Women's Health
Population Groupings
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e08276c3318e79c7904ac126e8cb5039