L’orientation mentale maternelle, le stress parental et la coparentalité chez des mères d’enfants d’âge préscolaire consultant en pédopsychiatrie et chez des mères d’enfants tout-venant

Houvenaghel, I., Achim, J., Lebel, A., Terradas, M. M., La Buissonnière-Ariza, V. et Dubois-Comtois, K. (2026). L’orientation mentale maternelle, le stress parental et la coparentalité chez des mères d’enfants d’âge préscolaire consultant en pédopsychiatrie et chez des mères d’enfants tout-venant. Psychologie Francaise, 71 (1). pp. 13-28. ISSN 0033-2984 DOI 10.1016/j.psfr.2025.06.001

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Introduction Maternal mind-mindedness represents the ability of mothers to understand their children's mental states and reflect on them appropriately. It promotes children's social and emotional development. This ability may vary according to the child's characteristics or the family environment. Objectives The aim of this study is to examine the links between maternal mind-mindedness, parenting stress and coparenting in mothers of preschool children. Method Sixty-four mothers took part in the study (39 from a child psychiatry clinic and 25 from the general population). Maternal mind-mindedness was coded from mother-child interactions while parenting stress and coparenting were measured by questionnaires. Results The results show that mothers who make more irrelevant comments experience more parenting stress. The more stressed mothers were, the more dissatisfied they were with their coparenting relationship. Mothers from the clinical group made more irrelevant comments, fewer comments on mental processes and experienced more parenting stress than the mothers of children from the general population. Also, the more mothers from the general population perceive mother-child interactions as dysfunctional, the more they make comments about mental processes. There were no significant differences between groups in terms of coparenting. No relationship was found between maternal mental comments and coparenting. Conclusion These results contribute to a greater knowledge about mothers consulting in psychiatry for their child, a population whose weaknesses in maternal mind-mindedness and parental stress are associated with the development of difficulties in the child and in the parent-child relationship.

Type de document:	Article
Mots-clés libres:	Coparenting Maternal mind-mindedness Mother-child relationship Parental stress
Date de dépôt:	08 juill. 2026 15:14
Dernière modification:	08 juill. 2026 15:14
Version du document déposé:	Post-print (version corrigée et acceptée)
URI:	https://depot-e.uqtr.ca/id/eprint/13026

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