The role of maternal experience of childhood trauma, symptoms of depression, adult attachment style, and parental reflective functioning on preschool children's socio-emotional development and theory of mind in a chilean population

dc.contributor.advisorSantelices Álvarez, María Pía
dc.contributor.authorSan Cristobal, Pamela
dc.contributor.otherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de Psicología
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-04T14:40:10Z
dc.date.available2019-11-04T14:40:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionTesis (Doctor en Psicoterapia)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2019
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship that maternal experience of early childhood trauma, symptoms of depression, adult attachment style, and parental reflective functioning has on their preschool child’s socio-emotional development and development of Theory of Mind, as these are parental variables often found to co-exist and/or affect one another, however the mechanisms through which they affect child’s development is still a subject of study. The participants of this study were 125 mother-child dyads who were part of the FONDECYT Project 1130786. Results from this study show that maternal symptoms of depression and lower parental reflective functioning significantly predicted a risk to their child’s socioemotional development. Interestingly, avoidant attachment style significantly predicted decreased levels of parental reflective functioning, whereas anxious attachment style, and childhood trauma significantly predicted maternal symptoms of depression. This particular study found that when differentiating between different types of trauma, the experience of sexual abuse during childhood significantly predicted maternal symptoms of depression and its indirect effect on the child’s socioemotional development was close to being statistically significant. Finally, this study sought to explore the mediator role of parental reflective functioning and found that both parental reflective functioning and symptoms of depression mediated the effect that childhood experience of trauma and insecure attachment styles had on children’s socioemotional development.
dc.format.extent133 páginas
dc.identifier.doi10.7764/tesisUC/PSI/26876
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/PSI/26876
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/26876
dc.language.isoes
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc150
dc.subject.deweyPsicologíaes_ES
dc.subject.otherMaternidad - Aspectos psicológicoses_ES
dc.subject.otherMadre e hijoes_ES
dc.titleThe role of maternal experience of childhood trauma, symptoms of depression, adult attachment style, and parental reflective functioning on preschool children's socio-emotional development and theory of mind in a chilean populationes_ES
dc.typetesis doctoral
sipa.codpersvinculados1002001
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