Are adult mentalizing abilities associated with mind-mindedness?

The precise nature of the relation between adult mentalizing abilities and parental representations of the child as a mental agent (mind-mindedness) is under current debate. While some authors state that it is the same competence expressed in different contexts, others assert that they are different constructs. This study examined the relation between mentalizing and mind-mindedness, in mothers and fathers, while investigating their potential links to socio-demographic, parental, and child variables. Participants were 74 families comprising of mother, father, and their preschool-aged child. Controlling for educational level, psychopathological symptoms, and children’s reported temperament, the relation between mentalizing and mind-mindedness was non-significant. Moreover, mentalizing and mind-mindedness were shown to have distinct correlates, supporting the proposal that they are two distinct constructs.

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How Do Mothers’ and Fathers’ Work–Family Conflict Impact Children’s Problem Behaviors?

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x20926209 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 0192513X2092620

Author(s):

Deniz Yucel ◽

Beth A. Latshaw

Keyword(s):

Problem Behaviors ◽

Conduct Problems ◽

Family Conflict ◽

Detrimental Effect ◽

Emotional Problems ◽

Work Family Conflict ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

Preschool Aged Child ◽

Aged Child ◽

Work Family

Using 509 mother/father–child dyads drawn from Wave 8 of The German Family Panel (pairfam), this study examines the direct effects of mothers’ and fathers’ work–family conflict (WFC) on children’s internalizing (emotional) and externalizing (conduct) problem behaviors. We also test whether these effects are moderated by several child characteristics and family characteristics. Results suggest that both mothers’ and fathers’ WFC are associated with greater emotional problems, whereas only mothers’ WFC is associated with greater conduct problems. The detrimental effect of fathers’ (mothers’) WFC on emotional problems is stronger for older children and girls (households with a preschool-aged child and boys). While there is no direct effect of fathers’ WFC on conduct problems, results show that the detrimental effect of mothers’ WFC on conduct problems is stronger for boys, as well as in households with more children and those with a preschool-aged child.

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Factors related to Parenting Stress of Single Mothers with a Preschool-aged Child in Child Facilities for Mother and Child Protection

10.33645/cnc.2019.04.41.2.1083 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 1083-1116

Author(s):

Soon Gi Ryu ◽

Bit Nae Choi

Keyword(s):

Parenting Stress ◽

Single Mothers ◽

Child Protection ◽

Preschool Aged Child ◽

Mother And Child ◽

Aged Child

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Defining Asthma in the Preschool-Aged Child

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.109.se1.357 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 109 (Supplement_E1) ◽

pp. 357-361

Author(s):

Robert C. Strunk

Keyword(s):

Chart Review ◽

Skin Testing ◽

Definitive Diagnosis ◽

Pulmonary Medicine ◽

Specific Test ◽

Sweat Chloride ◽

Preschool Aged Child ◽

Aged Child ◽

Allergy Skin Testing ◽

Rule Out

A physician faces many challenges in making a definitive diagnosis of asthma in young children. Although there are clinical and historical features consistent with asthma, identical features are present in many other diseases. Furthermore, there is no specific test for asthma. Other diseases must always be ruled out before a definitive diagnosis of asthma is made. Determining whether cough or wheeze is the primary symptom is important because asthma is primarily a wheezing disease. Sweat chloride testing, chest radiography, and allergy skin testing should be performed in children with persistent wheezing to rule out other causes and help support a diagnosis of asthma. Allergy skin testing provides particularly useful information for making a diagnosis of asthma in the preschool-aged child. A chart review of patients presenting consecutively to the Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine provides insight and information on an approach to make an asthma diagnosis for this population.

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Parental Socialization Styles, Parents' Educational Level, and Sexist Attitudes in Adolescence

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n2.38870 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 592-603 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Maite Garaigordobil ◽

Jone Aliri

Keyword(s):

Negative Correlation ◽

Educational Level ◽

Ambivalent Sexism ◽

High Educational Level ◽

Parental Socialization ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

Low Level ◽

Sexist Attitudes ◽

Mother's Educational Level ◽

High Educational

The aims of this study were to analyze the differences in the mothers' and fathers' socialization styles depending on their children's sex; whether there are differences in hostile, benevolent, and ambivalent sexism, and neosexism as a function of both parents' socialization styles; and whether the parents' educational level affects their level of sexism and their children's sexism. The sample included 1,455 adolescents and their parents (764 mothers and 648 fathers). The results showed no differences in the socialization style of the father with his children's sexism, but the mother used a more authoritarian style with her daughters. The parents' socialization style had little influence on their children's sexism, although it had a higher impact on the sons' sexism. The father's style had less influence than the mother's on their sons' sexism, and it had no influence on their daughters' sexism. The indulgent style of both parents had the highest relation with a low level of sexism. Moreover, a negative correlation was found between the parents' educational level and their level of sexism, as well as between the mother's educational level and her daughters' sexism. To conclude, the indulgent style and the mother's high educational level promote fewer sexist attitudes.

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1217 Narcolepsy in a Preschool-Aged Child

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleepj/zsx052.007 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (suppl_1) ◽

pp. A454-A454

Author(s):

EJ Jerkins ◽

OM Rodriguez

Keyword(s):

Preschool Aged Child ◽

Aged Child

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Play and the preschool aged child: Insights for educator

Early Child Development and Care ◽

10.1080/0300443840170101 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 1-2

Keyword(s):

Preschool Aged Child ◽

Aged Child

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Perceived parental rearing style, parental divorce and transsexualism: a controlled study

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291700017128 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 613-620 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis ◽

Willem A. Arrindell

Keyword(s):

Educational Level ◽

Parental Divorce ◽

Controlled Study ◽

Parental Representations ◽

Parental Absence ◽

Biological Sex ◽

Maternal Rejection ◽

Patient Groups ◽

Parental Rearing ◽

Male To Female

SynopsisThe parental representations of male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals were rated using the EMBU inventory. Scores on the measure were compared against ratings returned by controls of similar biological sex, matched on age, educational level and number of female siblings in an ANCOVA design. In line with previous findings by Parker & Barr (1982), who studied male-to-female transsexuals only, these patients were found not to differ from the male controls in their scoring of their mothers, but did score their fathers as less emotionally warm, more rejecting and more protective. Extending the findings by Parker & Barr (1982), female-to-male transsexuals rated both parents as more rejecting and less emotionally warm, but only their mothers as more protective than their female control equivalents rated theirs. Parental divorce distinguished both patient groups from controls, although further analyses revealed this not to imply more parental absence in patients than in controls. Male and female transsexuals differed from each other in some respects (e.g. lower scores on parental emotional warmth and higher scores on maternal rejection for the female patients), while being comparable in other respects (e.g. parental divorce).

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