Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire.
PRFQ
- What it measures
- parental mentalizing (reflective functioning) - Pre-Mentalizing Modes, Certainty about Mental States, and Interest and Curiosity in the child's mental states
- Length and format
- 18 (6 per subscale). 7-point agreement (1-7); three subscale means (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- many incl. ES, IT, DE, NL, ZH, PT, TR; widely adopted internationally
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Nijssens, L., & Fonagy, P. (2017). The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0176218.
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