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  • Clinical Psychology

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  • Emotion regulation is key for managing emotional experiences, especially in social contexts.
  • Parental reflective functioning involves understanding one's own and child's mental states and their behavioral impact.
  • Early parent-child relationships are significantly influenced by emotional management and understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between emotion regulation, emotion dysregulation, and parental reflective functioning in mothers.
  • To explore how specific emotion regulation strategies (e.g., suppression) relate to mentalizing capacities.
  • To understand the link between emotional awareness, goal setting, and the recognition of infant mental states.

Main Methods:

  • Study involved a sample of 97 mothers.
  • Assessed emotion regulation tendencies, including emotion suppression and difficulties.
  • Measured parental reflective functioning, including pre-mentalizing modes and recognition of non-observable mental states.

Main Results:

  • Mothers with higher emotion suppression and emotion regulation difficulties exhibited more pre-mentalizing.
  • Poorer emotional awareness in mothers correlated with less interest in their child's mental states.
  • Difficulties in goal setting were associated with a reduced ability to recognize infant mental states as non-observable.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support a significant relationship between various aspects of emotion regulation and maternal reflective functioning.
  • Emotion regulation skills appear crucial for effective parental mentalization and understanding child's mental states.
  • Integrating emotion regulation strategies into interventions targeting maternal mentalization is recommended.