Maternal narratives contribute to foundations of the child’s inner world. Commentary on: Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) collected during pregnancy predicts reflective functioning in AAIs from their first-born children 17 years later

[Extract] Steele, Perez, Segal, and Steele (2016) contributed
with an informative study, showing that adolescents’
reflective functioning (RF) is predicted by maternal
attachment representation, which was assessed even
before the youth were born using the Adult Attachment
Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main,
1985). Such a result is in line with previous findings
from the London Parent-Child Project (Steele &
Steele, 2005) and with years of attachment research,
positing the vital role of maternal state of mind in
shaping the child’s inner world...
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