The intergenerational transmission of reflective functioning in adoptive families: A prospective study from pre-adoption to early adolescence.

Infant Ment Health J · 2026 · PMC13137762 · PMID 42080341

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approached significancep = .062so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The total indirect effect was nonsignificant ( β = .21, SE = .15, p = .164), but the total effect approached significance ( β = .29, SE = .16, p = .062).

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a trend toward significancep = .080so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In Step 1, the direct effect of pre‐adoptive maternal reflective functioning on child reflective functioning showed a trend toward significance ( β = .28, SE = .16, p = .080).

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did not reach statistical significancep = .170not close (p > 0.1)

Although these descriptive trends suggested that adoptive fathers were more likely to experience declines in reflective functioning, while adoptive mothers were more likely to demonstrate increases, these categorical differences did not reach statistical significance, χ 2 (2, N = 92) = 3.54, p = .170.

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