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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Maternal attachment"”.
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Prenatal Maternal Attachment: The Lived Experience
Prenatal maternal attachment and the practice of health promoting behaviors during pregnancy are considered universal phenomena to women. Yet, the understanding of these phenomena from the lived experiences of pregnant women has not been well researched. The purpose of this phenomenological study …
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Maternal Attachment, Maternal Caregiving Behavior, and Family Income: A Pilot Study
… examine the prevalence of differing degrees of maternal emotional attachment, the mother's emotional tie to her infant, and maternal caregiving behavior, the mother's sensitivity and responsiveness to her infant. Specifically, this study examined if maternal attachment and maternal …
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A narrative inquiry into early pregnancy loss, subsequent pregnancy and maternal attachment
… and the psychological impact of such loss on maternal attachment. Adopting a narrative inquiry approach, four women were invited to tell their stories across two individual interviews and a focus group interview. The findings revealed several areas of common themes: feeling states, a unique …
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Bridging the Attachment Transmission Gap with Maternal Mind-mindedness and Infant Temperament
The goal of this study was to test (a) whether maternal mind-mindedness (MM) mediates the link between maternal attachment (from the Adult Attachment Interview) and infant attachment (in the Strange Situation), and (b) whether infant temperament moderates this model of attachment transmission. …
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Parental attachment and child adjustment : the role of parenting stress and self-compassion
… pain or failure have been associated with their attachment orientations, which are thought to significantly influence socioemotional adjustment in children. This study explored the links between parenting stress and self-compassion and the mediating effects of parenting stress and self-compassion …
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Examining the importance of the family on pre-school attachment and children's social development
Contemporary accounts of attachment theory are usually provided in terms of the mother-child dyad, isolated from the family. This focus has served to ostracise the caregiving context, once viewed as central to understanding child attachment quality (Bowlby, 1969/1982). While a call for more …
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Maternal Secure Base Scripts, Mother -Child Conversations, and Preschool Children's Attachment Security: A Comparison of *American and Korean Mothers and Their Children
Attachment theory has provided an effective tool for examining early socioemotional and personality development. Caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness have shown to be crucial in forming a secure attachment relationship during the sensorimotor period. As children enter the preschool period, …
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Maternal postnatal health and infant development
… the differential associations between PND, maternal-infant attachment and breastfeeding on long-term child developmental outcomes (i.e., cognitive, language, neuromotor and social-emotional development) at 12- and 24-months postnatal follow-up. While a significant amount of research has been …
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Effects of Perceived Fetal Movement and Fetal Ultrasound Imagery on Maternal-Fetal Attachment
… by the pregnant woman via ultrasonography on maternal-fetal attachment. The 79 subjects were 16-39 years of age and in the first or second trimester of pregnancy. Subjects completed a Demographic Questionnaire and the prenatal Maternal Attachment Scale (PMAS). Pregnant women who perceived …
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Exploring the Maternal Parenting Experiences During and Post-incarceration in South Africa
… Ultimately, this study underscores the enduring maternal attachment that motivates mothers to sustain their parenting role even within carceral settings. The findings advocate for holistic approaches that integrate systemic reforms addressing maternal needs, family- and community-centred support …
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"We saw how life was going in Hanover Park and none of us wanted that life for ourselves" : Exploring resilience factors in the life narratives of community-engaged youth.
… the relationship between the presence of strong maternal attachment bonds and positive adult role models which influence the development of the resilience factors, which, in turn, lead to confidence, optimism for the future and a strong sense of personal agency, all of which contribute to the …
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Bullying Behaviors and Attachment Styles
… some researchers have found correlations between maternal attachment and externalizing behaviors in females and between paternal attachment and externalizing behaviors (e.g., getting into fights) in males (Fagot et al., 1990), researchers have not looked specifically at the relationships between …
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Childbirth experiences and mother-infant relationships in Uganda
… is known about the psychological impact of maternal experiences on the mother and her baby in those countries. There is evidence from high income countries that the effects of posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth on mothers and their families can be long lasting. The aim of …
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Attachment, Exploration, and Internalized Homonegativity
… investigates relations between child and adult attachment and IH. It further examines the mediating and moderating roles of exploration and mentalization, respectively, in the attachment–IH relation.</p> <p><strong>Method:</strong> One hundred fifty cisgender LGB adults participated in two waves …
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Transgenerational Attachment, Life Stress, and the Development of Disruptive Behavior in Preschool Children
… deal of research focuses on representations of attachment, behavioral disorders, and life stress separately, research integrating these concepts has just recently begun (DeKlyen, 1996). The current study focuses on the links between transgenerational attachment, life stress, maternal …
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Mother-Infant Attachment: Path Analysis of the Predictive Role of Trauma Therapy and Select Demographics on Mother's Cognitive Responses
<p>Problem</p> <p>The best outcome for attachment when an infant is born would be a secure attachment, but this is not always the case. Insecure attachments are likely to be formed when the mother has experienced domestic violence given the right environment (Huth-Bocks et al., 2011; Theran et al., …
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Family chaos, attachment security, and responsiveness: Associations with appetite self-regulation in early childhood
… Taveras, Birch, & Yanovski, 2015), parent-child attachment relationships (Frankel et al., 2012), and the family context (Fiese & Bost, 2016; Woo Baidal et al., 2016). This is the first set of studies to examine how attachment and individual characteristics inform the development of appetite …