Eva Back Madsen

Eva Back Madsen

PhD fellow

Working at Center for Early Intervention and Family Studies (CIF), Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, as research assistant in Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project (CIMHP) from 2017-2020 and as PhD student in Understanding Your Baby (UYB) from 2020-2024.

Working title on PhD project: “Parental reflective functioning in first-time parents and associations to infant socioemotional development and parental relationship-specific attachment”

About the project: Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to the parental capacity to reflect on mental states such as feelings, thoughts, and intentions of the child, and of oneself as a parent. To assess PRF, the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) has been developed as a brief, multidimensional measure. Recently, a modified version, the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, Infant version (PRFQ-I), was suggested as a more accurate measure of PRF in at-risk parents of infants. The overall aim is to examine PRF using the PRFQ-I in a community sample of first-time mothers and fathers, whether PRFQ-I profiles can be identified, and associations of PRF to relationship-specific attachment and infant socioemotional development.

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