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Childhood experiences of maltreatment,reflective functioning and attachment in adolescent and young adult mothers: Effects on mother-infant interaction and emotion regulation |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy;2. ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milano, Italy;1. Te Puaruruhau (Child Protection Team), Starship Children’s Health, Private Bag 92024, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;2. Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;1. Psychology Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States;2. Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, United States;3. Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States;4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, United States;1. Université Laval École de psychologie, 2325 rue des Bibliothèques, Québec (QC), Canada G1V 0A6;2. University College London, Psychoanalysis Unit, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK;1. Innland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway;2. Division Mental Health Care, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway;3. Norwegian School of Sport Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;4. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;5. Research Division, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway;1. Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany;3. Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, SHG Hospital, Waldstraße 40, 66271 Kleinbittersdorf, Germany |
| Abstract: | BackgroundMaternal childhood experiences of maltreatment affect parenting and have consequences for a child’s social-emotional development. Adolescent mothers have a higher frequency of a history of maltreatment than adult mothers. However few studies have analyzed the interactions between adolescent mothers with a history of childhood maltreatment and their infants.ObjectiveThe aim of the study was to examine the effect of maternal childhood experiences of maltreatment on mother-infant emotion regulation at infant 3 months, considering both infant and mother individual emotion regulation and their mutual regulation.ParticipantsParticipants were 63 adolescent and young adult mother-infant dyads recruited at a hospital.MethodsThe mothers were administered the Adult Attachment Interview to evaluate reflective functioning and attachment and the Childhood Experiences of Care and Abuse was used to evaluate maternal childhood experiences of maltreatment. Mother-infant interactions were coded with a modified version of the Infant Caregiver Engagement Phases.ResultsDyads with mothers with childhood maltreatment (vs dyads with mothers with no maltreatment) spent more time in negative emotional mutual regulation (p = .009) and less time in positive and neutral mutual emotion regulation (p = .019). Cumulative maternal childhood experiences of maltreatment were associated positively with mother and infant negative states at individual and dyadic level and with the AAI scales of Passivity and Unresolved Trauma (p < .05). The effect of cumulative maternal childhood experiences of maltreatment on mother-infant emotion regulation was direct and not mediated by maternal attachment and reflective function.ConclusionsMaternal childhood experiences of maltreatment increase the risk connected to early motherhood, affecting mother-infant emotion regulation. |
| Keywords: | Adolescent and young adult mother Mother-infant interaction and emotion regulation Maternal attachment Maternal childhood experiences of maltreatment Maternal reflective functioning |
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