ABSTRACT

Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) captures the parent’s capacity to extrapolate the child’s mental states from movement and respond on a nonverbal level. Little is known about PEM’s relation to other established measures of parent-child interactive behavior, such as maternal sensitivity and attachment. This is investigated in a sample of four months old infants and mothers with (n = 27) and without a diagnosis of postpartum depression (n = 44). Video-recorded infant-mother interactions were coded independently using PEM and Coding Interactive Behavior. Attachment was assessed at 13 months using the Strange Situation Procedure. Sensitivity and PEM was positively associated, but only sensitivity predicted attachment security and only the nonclinical group. This indicates that PEM and sensitivity are moderately related as well as capturing different aspects of infant-mother interactions. The study confirms previous findings of sensitivity predicting attachment in nonclinical groups. More research is required to further understand predictors of attachment in clinical samples.

摘要

Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) 捕捉父母从运动中推断孩子的心理状态并在非语言水平上做出反应的能力。关于 PEM 与亲子互动行为的其他既定措施的关系知之甚少，例如母亲的敏感性和依恋。这是在四个月大的婴儿和母亲的样本中进行调查的（n = 27）和没有诊断出产后抑郁症（n= 44)。使用 PEM 和编码交互行为对视频记录的婴儿-母亲互动进行独立编码。依恋在 13 个月时使用奇怪情况程序进行评估。敏感性和 PEM 呈正相关，但只有敏感性可以预测依恋安全性，并且只有非临床组。这表明 PEM 和敏感性是适度相关的，并且捕获了婴儿-母亲互动的不同方面。该研究证实了先前在非临床组中预测依恋的敏感性的发现。需要更多的研究来进一步了解临床样本中附着的预测因子。