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Metaphor, Attachment and Mentalization: The Influence of Mothers' Use of Mental State Metaphors in Attachment Narratives on Children's Theory of Mind and Emotion Understanding.

机译:隐喻,依恋和心理化:母亲在依恋叙事中使用心理状态隐喻对孩子的心理理论和情感理解的影响。

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The mechanisms by which representations of attachment are inter- generationally transferred continue to be a focal point of research and theory. Possible explanations of closing this "transmission gap" have included caretakers' attunement to their children across behavioral, emotional and verbal channels. Research suggests that such attunement may involve not only sensitivity to the child's vital and emotional needs, but also the appreciation of the child's inner mental life, or mentalization. The present study builds on prior research from the fields of attachment, linguistics and cognitive psychology to examine the role of mental metaphors in the transmission of attachment representations and mentalization skills from mothers to children. Participants consisted of 76 British mother-child dyads from a longitudinal sample. Mothers' prenatal Adult Attachment Interviews (AAIs) were reliably coded for mental state metaphors, using an adapted metaphor identification process (Steen, et al., 2010). Outcome measures included mother-infant security of attachment at age one, children's theory of mind competence at age five and children's emotion recognition at age six. Results partially confirmed hypotheses. Small correlations were observed between the frequency of mothers' emotion metaphors and their mentalization capacity in prenatal AAIs. Furthermore, mothers' use of unconventional emotion metaphors correlated to a small degree with mother-infant attachment security and behaviors at age one, but were not independently predictive of these outcomes when including mothers' mentalization scores. Finally, frequency of unconventional emotion metaphors in mothers' AAIs independently predicted children's emotion understanding six years later, after accounting for children's age and language skills, mothers' overall emotion word frequency and mothers' mentalization scores. Results suggest that mothers' use of less conventional emotion verbal metaphors has a small independent influence on children's mentalization capacities. Implications for attachment research, as well as limitations are discussed.
机译:依恋代代相传的机制仍然是研究和理论的重点。弥合这种“传播鸿沟”的可能解释包括看护者通过行为,情感和言语渠道对孩子的调教。研究表明,这种调解不仅涉及对孩子的生命和情感需求的敏感性,而且还涉及对孩子内心的精神生活或心理化的欣赏。本研究以依恋,语言学和认知心理学领域的先前研究为基础,研究了心理隐喻在从母亲到儿童的依恋表征和心理化技能的传递中的作用。参加者包括来自纵向样本的76个英国母子二元组。母亲的产前成人依恋访谈(AAI)使用经过适应的隐喻识别过程得到了可靠的心理状态隐喻编码(Steen等,2010)。结果指标包括:一岁时母婴的依恋安全性,五岁时儿童的心理能力理论以及六岁时儿童的情感识别能力。结果部分证实了假设。在产前AAI中,母亲的情感隐喻的频率与其心理能力之间的相关性很小。此外,母亲对非常规情感隐喻的使用在很小的程度上与母婴的依恋安全性和一岁时的行为相关,但是当包括母亲的心理得分时,并不能独立预测这些结果。最后,在考虑了儿童的年龄和语言技能,母亲的整体情感词频度和母亲的心理得分之后,母亲的AAI中非常规的情感隐喻的频率独立地预测了孩子在6年后的情感理解。结果表明,母亲使用不太传统的情感言语隐喻对孩子的心理能力有较小的独立影响。讨论了对依恋研究的意义以及局限性。

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  • 作者

    Dent, Loren.;

  • 作者单位

    The New School.;

  • 授予单位 The New School.;
  • 学科 Developmental psychology.;Linguistics.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2015
  • 页码 108 p.
  • 总页数 108
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:52:59

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