Differentiation, self–other representations, and rupture–repair processes: Predicting child maltreatment risk.

Skowron, Elizabeth A.; Kozlowski, Jo Ellen M.; Pincus, Aaron L.

doi:10.1037/a0020030

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“…Loss of attachment to the brother (in BSI) or the father (in FDI) results in an emotional cut-off (Caffaro & Conn-Caffaro, 2005;Rudd & Herzberger, 1999). In other research emotional cut-offs predicted poorer functioning in marriage and other relationships (Peleg, 2008;Skowron, Stanley, & Shapiro, 2009) and a greater risk for becoming a mother who maltreats her children (Skowron, Kozolowski, & Pincus, 2010). The victims of SBI identified in the present study seem to have been mostly spared from loss of attachment to the parents, but this may well be because the SBI was never brought to the attention of the authorities.…”

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Sister-brother Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer Assisted Self Interviews

O’Keefe

Beard

Swindell

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Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity

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Retrospective data were entered anonymously by 1,178 adult men using computer-assisted self-interview. Twenty-seven were victims of sister-brother incest (SBI), 119 were victims of child sexual abuse by an adult female (CSA-AF) before 18 years of age, 1,032 were controls. SBI was often the first sexual experience for the victim. Our findings were consistent with other reports of early and persistent hyper-eroticization of incest victims. SBI increased the likelihood of engaging in behaviors as an adult consistent with a co-existing or primary male-male sexual orientation, and SBI and CSA-AF had deleterious impacts on adult men's sexual adjustment with their adult partners. Meiselman (1979, pp. 294-298) found eight cases of brother-sister incest described by sisters (BSI) and three cases sister-brother incest described by brothers (SBI) in her clinical sample. The three SBI victims Meiselman (1979) described had all been harmed by the SBI, but the victims described in two of the three cases also had been victims of incest perpetrated by other family members (the mother in one case and a brother in the other case). Over

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confidence: 95%

Sister-brother Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer Assisted Self Interviews

O’Keefe

Beard

Swindell

et al. 2014

Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity

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“…Instead, advanced mentalizing involves the acknowledgment of the opacity of minds and thus the fundamental impossibility of knowing the mental states of others with certainty, resulting in understanding misunderstandings (Bateman & Fonagy, 2012). Accordingly, people high in mentalizing are speculated to be more likely to repair interactive repairs (Benjamin, 2003;Skowron, Kozlowski, & Pincus, 2010;Tronick, 1989) as they are able to appreciate that their own mental states might conflict with those of the other, and thus try modifying the interactive process. Unfortunately, what we believe to be a central component of mentalizing -the parent's ability to amend interactive ruptures -is not captured in existing measurements of parental mentalizing.…”

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Parental embodied mentalizing: how the nonverbal dance between parents and infants predicts children’s socio-emotional functioning

Shai

Belsky

2016

Attachment & Human Development

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Parental mentalizing -the parent's ability to envision the child's mental states (such as desires, thoughts, or wishes) -has been argued to underlie a parent's ability to respond sensitively to their child's emotional needs, and thereby promote advantageous cognitive and socioemotional development. Mentalizing is typically operationalized in terms of how parents talk to or about their infants. This work extends research on mentalizing by operationalizing parental mentalizing exclusively in terms of nonverbal, bodily based, interactive behavior, namely parental embodied mentalizing(PEM). The purpose of the current research was twofold: (1) to establish the reliability and validity of the PEM coding system; and (2) to evaluate whether such measurement predicts infant and child cognitive and socio-emotional functioning. Assessing 200 mother-infant dyads at 6 months using the coding of PEM proved both reliable and valid, including predicting child attachment security at 15 and 36 months, and language abilities, academic skills, behavior problems, and social competence at 54 months, in many cases even after taking into consideration traditional measures of parenting, namely maternal sensitivity. Conceptual, empirical, and clinical implications are discussed. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Higher levels of differentiation of self have been linked with better psychological adjustment in adulthood (e.g., Bray, Harvey & Williamson, 1987;Greene, Hamilton & Rolling, 1986;Jenkins, Buboltz, Schwartz & Johnson, 2005), greater capacity for emotional self-regulation, self regulation of attention and behavior, adult attachment security (e.g., Skowron & Dendy, 2004;Skowron, Holmes & Sabatelli, 2003;Thorberg & Lyvers, 2006;Wei, Vogel, Ku & Zakalik, 2005), and fewer psychological symptoms and relationship difficulties (e.g., Bartle-Haring, 1997;Bartle-Haring & Gregory 2003;Peleg, 2002;Schwartz, Thigpen & Montgomery, 2006;Skowron, 2000;Skowron & Friedlander, 1998;Skowron, Stanley & Shapiro, 2009). Studies have also shown that higher levels of differentiation of self are linked to greater marital satisfaction among heterosexual and same-sex couples (e.g., Kosek, 1998;Montes-Berges, 2009;Parsons, Nalbone, Killmer &Wetchler, 2007;Peleg, 2008;Skowron, 2000;Spencer & Brown, 2007), and adults who report greater differentiation of self are at lower risk for engaging in child abuse and other forms of family violence (Skowron, Kozlowski, & Pincus, 2010;Skowron & Platt, 2005). Also, findings indicate that differentiation appears to moderate (Knauth, Skowron & Escobar, 2006;Murdock & Gore, 2004) and mediate (Skowron Wester & Azen, 2004), the effects of stress on coping and adjustment in emerging adults.…”

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Spanish Adaptation Of The Differentiation Of Self Inventory-Revised (DSI-R)

2015

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This study introduces the Spanish Differentiation of Self Inventory(S-DSI) version, a 26 item measure, consisting of 2 subscales-Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Cutoff-focusing on adults (ages 25+) and their significant relationships, including current relations with family of origin.Translation of DSI into Spanish was conducted using a back translation method, with two independent teams for translation into Spanish and back-translation into English. A sample of 1047 adult men and women (living in Spain, native Spanish speakers) completed the Spanish-DSI scale and a socio-demographic questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted on a randomly selected half of the sample, and results yielded a two subscalesolution that closely conformed with the original DSI's Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Cutoff scales. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis cross-validated the measure's factor structure in the remaining sample. Implications for cross-cultural research and culturally-informed study of Bowen theory in Spanish populations are further discussed. Keywords: cross-cultural research, family systems theory, Hispanic families, instrument validation, family assessment measure. ResumenEste trabajo presenta la versión española del Differentiation of Self Inventory (S-DSI), un instrumento de 26 ítems, con dos subescalas -Reactividad Emocional y Corte Emocional-, orientado a población adulta (mayores de 25 años) y al estudio de sus relaciones significativas, lo que incluye las relaciones con la familia de origen y las actuales. La traducción del DSI-R al español se realizó a través del método de traducción inversa, con dos equipos de traducción independientes para la traducción al español y la traducción inversa al inglés. Una muestra de 1047 mujeres y hombres adultos (residentes en España y con el español como lengua nativa) cumplimentaron la traducción española del DSI-R y un cuestionario sociodemográfico. Se llevó a cabo un análisis factorial exploratorio con la mitad de la muestra seleccionada al azar. Sus resultados conducen a un modelo de dos subescalas que corresponden en gran medida con las subescalas originales Emotional Reactivity y Emotional Cutoff del DSI-R. Los resultados del análisis factorial confirmatorio realizado con la otra mitad de la muestra corroboran esta estructura factorial. Se discuten finalmente las implicaciones para la investigación transcultural y para el estudio culturalmente fundamentado de la Teoría de Bowen en poblaciones de habla española.

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Differentiation, self–other representations, and rupture–repair processes: Predicting child maltreatment risk.

Cited by 69 publications

References 93 publications

Sister-brother Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer Assisted Self Interviews

Sister-brother Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer Assisted Self Interviews

Parental embodied mentalizing: how the nonverbal dance between parents and infants predicts children’s socio-emotional functioning

Spanish Adaptation Of The Differentiation Of Self Inventory-Revised (DSI-R)

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