From Childhood to Adulthood: Investigating Maternal Mind-Mindedness as a Predictor of Mentalising Tendencies and Attachment Security

This project aims to investigate the links between maternal mind-mindedness, mentalising abilities, and attachment security from early childhood to early adulthood. Mind-mindedness indexes the tendency to view and treat close others as individuals with their own minds (i.e., people's proclivity to use their mentalising abilities in explicit ways within close relationships). Maternal mind-mindedness is an established predictor of children’s mentalising abilities and mother–child attachment security. This study will investigate whether maternal mind-mindedness in childhood continues to predict mentalising abilities and attachment security in early adulthood, using archive data from a long-term longitudinal study.