preoccupied/unresolved AAI dimension but not with the dismissive dimension. These narrative representations may in turn make the future development of BPD more likely. We also found that observed parenting was significantly correlated with mothers’ their narrative representations of mother-child relationship expectations. This children’s provides support for the intergenerational transmission of internal working models and additional validity for the narrative story-stem completion measure as reflecting children’s actual experience. Finally, as hypothesized, parenting significantly mediated the mothers’ relationship between preoccupied/unresolved dimension on the AAI and their mothers’ narrative representations of fear of abandonment. anger associated children’s Mothers’ with preoccupation with her difficult childhood experiences and a lack of resolution of losses and abuse suffered, may affect her ability to be sensitive, supportive of autonomy, and not hostile in parenting her child, thus contributing to the own fear of child’s abandonment. However, there was no meditational effect for parenting in the relationship between preoccupied/unresolved dimension and role reversal. Other aspects of mothers’ parenting such as the observed role reversal with her child, may mediate the mother’s relationship with role reversal instead. The conceptual similarity between domains of early childhood (attachment, and self-regulation) and domains of dysfunction in BPD was evident at the level of representation. Internal working models may be carried forward from mother to child and possibly influence the development of BPD in early adulthood. These pathways may be characterized by either homotypic or heterotypic continuity (). Examples of homotypic continuity include an incongruent sense of self, anger and dissociation, which
preoccupied/unresolved AAI dimension but not with the dismissive dimension. These narrative representations may in turn make the future development of BPD more likely. We also found that mothers’ observed parenting was significantly correlated with their children’s narrative representations of mother-child relationship expectations. This provides support for the intergenerational transmission of internal working models and additional validity for the narrative story-stem completion measure as reflecting children’s actual experience. Finally, as hypothesized, mothers’ parenting significantly mediated the relationship between mothers’ preoccupied/unresolved dimension on the AAI and their children’s narrative representations of fear of abandonment. Mothers’ anger associated with preoccupation with her difficult childhood experiences and a lack of resolution of losses and abuse suffered, may affect her ability to be sensitive, supportive of autonomy, and not hostile in parenting her child, thus contributing to the child’s own fear of abandonment. However, there was no meditational effect for parenting in the relationship between mothers’ preoccupied/unresolved dimension and role reversal. Other aspects of parenting such as the mother’s observed role reversal with her child, may mediate the relationship with role reversal instead. The conceptual similarity between domains of early childhood (attachment, and self-regulation) and domains of dysfunction in BPD was evident at the level of representation. Internal working models may be carried forward from mother to child and possibly influence the development of BPD in early adulthood. These pathways may be characterized by either homotypic or heterotypic continuity (). Examples of homotypic continuity include an incongruent sense of self, anger and dissociation, which
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