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Abstract：
Maternal mind-mindedness is a characteristic of supportive parenting and contributes to many positive social-emotional outcomes in early childhood. However, there is limited knowledge of mind-mindedness among parents experiencing parenting stress from low-income settings. This is a critical gap in evidence given the robust role of supportive parenting in children\'s development and the capacity of home-based interventions to improve children\'s outcomes through enhancing supportive parenting. This study examined: (1) maternal mind-mindedness, operationalized as mothers\' appropriate mind-related comments (MRC), across toddlerhood in mothers of toddlers who participated in infant mental health (IMH) based Early Head Start (EHS) services; and (2) whether parenting stress moderated EHS program effects on appropriate MRC over time. Data from a primarily White midwestern site in the United States were collected at study enrollment and when toddlers were 14-, 24-, and 36-months of age (N = 152; mothers M age = 22.4 years, SD = 5.1; toddlers M age = 14.4 months, SD = 1.3; 51% females). Data included parent-completed questionnaires and observed parent-child interactions, which were coded for MRC. Although there were no main effects of EHS programming on mothers\' appropriate MRC over time, multilevel growth curve modeling indicated that parenting stress moderated EHS effects on mothers\' appropriate MRC over time. Among mothers with greater parenting stress, those who received IMH-based EHS services demonstrated greater proportions of MRC over time as compared to mothers with greater stress in the control group. IMH-based parenting interventions that target parenting stress may promote appropriate MRC in low-income populations during toddlerhood.
摘要：
母亲的思想意识是支持性育儿的特征，并有助于幼儿时期许多积极的社会情感结果。然而,在低收入环境中经历育儿压力的父母中，对心智的了解有限。鉴于支持性育儿在儿童发展中的强大作用以及基于家庭的干预措施通过加强支持性育儿改善儿童结果的能力，这是一个关键的证据差距。本研究考察了：(1)母性思维，作为母亲的适当的与心理相关的评论(MRC)，参与基于婴儿心理健康（IMH）的早期开始（EHS）服务的幼儿母亲在整个幼儿时期；（2）育儿压力是否随时间调节了EHS计划对适当的MRC的影响。来自美国中西部一个主要的白人网站的数据是在研究登记时收集的，当幼儿为14岁时，24-,和36个月的年龄(N=152；母亲年龄=22.4岁，SD=5.1；幼儿M年龄=14.4个月，SD=1.3；51%女性）。数据包括家长填写的问卷和观察到的亲子互动，为MRC编码。尽管随着时间的推移，EHS编程对母亲适当的MRC没有主要影响，多层次生长曲线模型表明，随着时间的推移，育儿压力可以缓解EHS对母亲适当MRC的影响。在育儿压力更大的母亲中，与对照组中压力较大的母亲相比,接受基于IMH的EHS服务的患者表现出更高的MRC比例.针对育儿压力的基于IMH的育儿干预措施可能会在幼儿时期在低收入人群中促进适当的MRC。
