TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Mind-mindedness in parents of looked-after children
JO  - Developmental psychology
A1  - Fishburn, Sarah
A1  - Meins, Elizabeth
A1  - Greenhow, Sarah
A1  - Jones, Christine
A1  - Hackett, Simon
A1  - Biehal, Nina
A1  - Baldwin, Helen
A1  - Cusworth, Linda
A1  - Wade, Jim
SP  - 1954
EP  - 1965
VL  - 53
IS  - 10
N2  - The studies reported here aimed to test the proposal that mind-mindedness is a quality of personal relationships by assessing mind-mindedness in caregiver-child dyads in which the relationship has not spanned the child's life or in which the relationship has been judged dysfunctional. Studies 1 and 2 investigated differences in mind-mindedness between adoptive parents (ns = 89, 36) and biological parents from the general population (ns = 54, 114). Both studies found lower mind-mindedness in adoptive compared with biological parents. The results of Study 2 showed that this group difference was independent of parental mental health and could not fully be explained in terms of children's behavioral difficulties. Study 3 investigated differences in mind-mindedness in foster carers (n = 122), parents whose children had been the subject of a child protection plan (n = 172), and a community sample of biological parents (n = 128). The level of mind-mindedness in foster carers and parents who were involved with child protection services was identical and lower than that in the community sample; children's behavioral difficulties could not account for the difference between the 2 groups of biological parents. In all 3 studies, nonbiological carers' tendency to describe their children with reference to preadoption or placement experiences was negatively related to mind-mindedness. These findings are in line with mind-mindedness being a relational construct. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0012-1649
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000304
ID  - ref1
ER  -