This study investigated the influence of fathers on early triadic family interactions including
transgenerational, representational, and interactional dimensions. A prospective …

This study examines associations between parental capacities for triadic (mother–father–
child) relationships, assessed prenatally, and the representational and behavioral …

In this study, we explored the predictive role of family interactions and family representations
in mothers and fathers during pregnancy for postnatal mother–father–infant interactions …

Abstract Bowlby (1969/1982, 1973, 1980) has proposed that internal working models of self
and other are psychic structures that guide an individual's subjective experience of and …

In this study, the influence of paternal involvement in caregiving on infant sociability was
assessed using a “strange situation” paradigm adapted from the work of Ainsworth, Blehar …

Perceptions of the availability of social support were assumed to mediate the association
between the future mother's perceptions of early relationships and positive postpartum …

Parents' representations of their infants consist of parents' subjective experiences of how
they perceive their infants. They provide important information about the quality of the parent …

Highlights research on paternal influences in parent–infant interactions with respect to how
fathers stimulate their infants, provide models of appropriate behavior, and become …

This short term longitudinal study of parent-infant interactions over 4 months beginning at
birth examines interrelations among patterns of interactive behavior, characteristics of the …

Reviews recent research on the father–infant relationship. Those studies documenting
changes in parent and infant behavior when the mother–infant dyad is transformed into the …