A Preliminary Study of Psychometric Properties of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) on an Iranian Sample

The objective of this practical study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (luyten et al. 2017). The participants of this study were 244 mothers from Tehran (in 2019) with 1 to 5 year-old children (106 boys and 138 girls) who answered the translated version of Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire. The structural validity was obtained by exploratory factor analysis with principal component analysis and varimax rotation the three-factors including prementalizing modes, certainty, and curiosity about mental state and 48.43 percent of the variance was extracted. The Cronbach Alpha obtained in the three factors was respectively 0.68, 0.72, and 0.68, and in the whole scale was 0.70. The structural exploratory factor was the same as the structural parental reflective function. Considering the results of the exploratory factor analysis and the obtained reliability, it seems that there is preliminary evidence converging with the results from the original scale, meaning that this scale can assess the parental reflective function in Iran.