TY - JOUR T1 - Reflective functioning, maternal attachment, mind-mindedness, and emotional availability in adolescent and adult mothers at infant 3 months. AU - Riva Crugnola,Cristina, AU - Ierardi,Elena, AU - Canevini,Maria Paola, Y1 - 2017/09/19/ PY - 2017/9/20/pubmed PY - 2018/7/26/medline PY - 2017/9/20/entrez KW - Adolescent and adult mother KW - adult reflective functioning KW - emotional availability KW - maternal attachment KW - mind-mindedness SP - 84 EP - 106 JF - Attachment & human development JO - Attach Hum Dev VL - 20 IS - 1 N2 - The study evaluated reflective functioning (RF), maternal attachment, mind-mindedness, and emotional availability among 44 adolescent mother-infant dyads and 41 adult mother-infant dyads. At infant age 3 months, mother-infant interaction was coded with the mind-mindedness coding system and Emotional Availability Scales; mother attachment and RF were evaluated with the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Adolescent mothers (vs. adult mothers) were more insecure and had lower RF; they were also less sensitive, more intrusive and hostile, and less structuring of their infant's activity; they used fewer attuned mind-related comments and fewer mind-related comments appropriate to infant development. In adult mothers, the Mother Idealizing and Lack of Memory AAI scales were correlated to non-attuned mind-related comments and the Father Anger scale to negative mind-related comments. In adult mothers, RF was associated with sensitivity. This was not the case with adolescent mothers. In both groups of mothers, there were no associations between sensitivity and mind-mindedness. SN - 1469-2988 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/28925329/Reflective_functioning_maternal_attachment_mind_mindedness_and_emotional_availability_in_adolescent_and_adult_mothers_at_infant_3_months_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -