Validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire among maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers.

ABSTRACT: The Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ; Luyten et al., 2017) is a central measure of parental reflective functioning (i.e., the tendency to consider children's mental experiences); still, little is known about the psychometric properties of the PRFQ among maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers. Maltreating mothers may have difficulties with parental reflective functioning given their risk for biased child-related cognitions and difficulties with sensitive emotion socialization. The present study investigated measurement invariance and the concurrent validity of the PRFQ in a sample of racially diverse, low-income maltreating (n = 165) and nonmaltreating (n = 83) mothers of preschoolers. Mothers were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of a brief interve

SUBMITTER: Edler K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10050094 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature