Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience severe and pervasive disturbances in the development of attachment relationships, identity, and emotion regulation. Given these deficits, mothers diagnosed with BPD are likely to experience significant difficulties in parenting their children. The present study examined the effect of maternal BPD and borderline personality features on emotional availability in interactions between mothers with BPD and their 4- to 7-year-old children. In a low socioeconomic status (SES) sample of n = 35 children of mothers diagnosed with BPD and n = 35 normative comparisons, groups were compared on maternal and child emotional availability, and self-reported maternal borderline personality features were assessed across the sample as a whole. No significant differences in emotional availability were found between groups. Across the sample as whole, however, maternal borderline personality features of affective instability, identity disturbance, negative relationships, and self-harm were significantly correlated with maternal intrusiveness and maternal hostility. Maternal borderline personality features of affective instability and negative relationships were significantly associated with maternal sensitivity, child responsiveness, and child involvement. Results are discussed in terms of putative precursors to BPD and preventive interventions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1981. / Bibliography: leaves [135]-141.

Målet med denna studie var att beskriva mammors upplevelser av babyrytmik och teoretiskt förankra denna beskrivning i ett samhällsinriktat musikterapeutiskt perspektiv. Fem (5) halvstrukturerade djupintervjuer med en medellängd på 45 minuter utfördes under vintern 2012 och analyserades enligt en hermeneutisk förståelseprocess. Mammorna var i medeltal 32 år och högt utbildade.Den gemensamma glädjen i att få sjunga, leka och finnas i musik tillsammans med sitt barn och ha en gemensam hobby värdesätts högt av mammorna som alla prioriterar hobbies med musik. För en stund är det någon annan som tar över ansvaret, en ledare som skapar klara strukturer med musik. Mammorna får slappna av och njuta tillsammans med sina barn. De berättar att babyrytmiken stimulerar till att börja sjunga, sjunga oftare och sjunga längre tid med barnen samt ger dem tillåtelse och inspiration till att privat improvisera och småsjunga hemma tillsammans med sina barn. Att få se sina barn utvecklas socialt, kunna jämföra sitt eget barns utveckling med andra barns och att få vara med som en trygg boj i barnens nyfikna första möten med ett omgivande samhälle är viktiga orsaker till att mammorna deltar och fortsätter delta i babyrytmik.Resultaten tolkades utgående ifrån ett salutogent perspektiv med både anknytningsteoretiska resonemang och ett samhällsinriktat musikterapeutiskt fokus. Babyrytmik som en av barnets första trygga, glädjefyllda kontakt med en omgivande musikalisk tradition tolkades teoretiskt med hjälp av en samhällsinriktad musikterapeutisk modell som beskriver utvecklingen från musik i dyaden, i denna studie mamman och barnet, mot ett musikaliskt samhälle.Konklusionerna av denna studie blir att den teoretiska förståelsen av hur musik kan användas i arbete inom familjer och med föräldrar och barn har all potential att utvecklas. / The aim of this study was to describe mothers ́ experiences of mother-child music groups in the theoretical frameworks of community music therapy. Five (5) semi- structured interviews with a mean duration length of 45 minutes were obtained during winter 2012 and hermeneutically processed. The mothers were highly educated women with a mean age of 32 years.The mothers in the study all prioritise hobbies that include music and they highly appreciate the common joy in singing and playing with their children. The clear structure in both music and created by the leader allows the mothers to fully relax and enjoy the music with their children. The results indicate that the music group activities support the private musical improvisations in the homes. Musical group activities give the mothers opportunities to support their children in one of their first encounters with a musical society and watch the child socially develop.The results were interpreted in a salutogenetic framework, focusing on both attachment theory in a music context and community music therapy. Mother-child music groups were theoretically grasped in this study by a community music therapy model, offering a theoretical explanation to the development from a dyadic relation (mother-child) towards a musical community.The conclusions of this study indicate that the theoretical framework for understanding how music can be used among families and with parents have clear potential to develop.

本研究的目的為瞭解母子對話中的打斷現象，分析的語料來自於兩對以漢語為母語的母子對話，兩位小孩皆為三歲。首先，為瞭解母親與小孩打斷句之本質，我們採用Goldberg (1990:891)的分類來做判斷，結果顯示兩者在對談中皆大多使用rapport-oriented interruptions，代表在母子對話中，兩方傾向在打斷句中表達對對方話語的興趣與投入，並且藉由著打斷一同建立談話主題。再者，小孩的打斷句更進一步的用Dunn and Shatz’s (1989)的研究方法來分析其與對話言談的語意關連，結果發現小孩的打斷句多數都包含了與之前相關並且新的訊息，而這類的打斷句是最有可能得到母親的注意並且回應。 / The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature and function of mother-to-child and child-to-mother interruptions in conversation. The data analyzed are natural conversations from two Mandarin-speaking mother-child dyads. The children are about three years old. Goldberg’s (1990:891) categorization of interruptions is adopted to examine the nature of the mothers’ and children’s interruptions. The results show that both the mothers and the children use more rapport-oriented interruptions than other types of interruptions, which indicates that in mother-child interaction, both parties tend to use interruptions to signal their involvement and interest and to construct a shared topic cooperatively. In addition, the children’s interruptions are further examined based on Dunn and Shatz’s (1989) framework in order to investigate the semantic relations between the children’s interruptions and the conversational discourse. The findings show that most of the children’s interruptions contain relevant new information. Such interruptions are likely to succeed in getting the attention and response from the mothers.

Thesis (M.N.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, School of Nursing, 2000. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 140-150.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-329).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [109]-122).

Early intimate interactions between mothers and their infants are characterised by mutuality and reciprocity. Although a great deal is known about the distal processes such as gaze and affect, by concentrating on touch this research addresses a key aspect of early life interactions that has received far less attention. this research comprises a single major quasi-experimental and observational longitudinal study, exploring the naturalistic interactions between mothers and their full-term infants (n=32). Dyads were videotaped in their own homes at five age points across the first year - 6 weeks, 3,6,9,12 months. A contextual variation was introduced at 6 months by providing a selection of novel toys for the dyads to play with. Each second of a selected 5 minute period of interaction of both free and toy play contexts were coded using a coding schedule for the type of touch, location of touch, intensity of touch, gaze direction and affectual displays. Repeated measures of analyses of variance revealed differences in the duration and locations of touch, and changes in maternal and infant affect and gaze across the first year. Patterns in these non-verbal communicative strategies were shaped by both age and context. Results revealed that overall maternal touch decreased over the first year of life and the mothers used more passive than active forms of touch when interacting with their infants. The duration of gaze at face decreased for mothers and infants over time, while gaze at body and object increased. Infant initiated touch was both low in frequency and duration but showed commonalities across dyads. The results are discussed drawing on insights from ethology, attachment theory, systems theory and the complexity of the multimodal features of interactive exchange. The results underscore the implications for tactile stimulation in early patterns of communication.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2004. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.