Background Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to parents' mental capacity to
understand their own and their children's behaviors in terms of envisioned mental states. As …

As fathering research has flourished, a growing body of studies has focused on behavioral
and neurobiological mechanisms, respectively associated with caregiving sensitivity and …

The goal of our study was to examine whether differences in the sensitivity and intrusiveness
of fathers and mothers from gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families (57 French …

Mealtime is a parent–toddler interaction that occurs multiple times a day. This study
examined whether observed maternal sensitivity differed between a mealtime and free‐play …

This study examines, in low-income families, whether fathers' distress is associated with
behavioral problems in preschool children and if the quality of father–child interactions …

Pregnant women with psychosocial vulnerabilities should be offered perinatal interventions
that include a parenting component to ameliorate the potential negative effects of maternal …

Infancy is characterized by intensive parenting which may affect later child development.
However, little is known about similarities and differences in maternal and paternal …

During mother‐infant interaction, shared emotional experiences, defined as reciprocal and
synchronous emotional sharing between mother and infant, are an indicator of early …

El involucramiento m/paterno es un importante predictor del desarrollo infantil. En este
estudio describimos el involucramiento cognitivo y afectivo de m/padres con sus hijos/as de …

This study examines paternal and maternal sensitivity as predictors of toddlers' attachment
security in two naturalistic contexts. Seventy‐three mostly White middle‐class families …