Affect in maternal representations and infant -mother attachment.
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Title
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Affect in maternal representations and infant -mother attachment.
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Identifier
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AAI9946167
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identifier
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9946167
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Creator
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Graf, Francoise Geisendorf.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Arietta Slade
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies | Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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This study investigated the stability of the affective dimension of mothers' thoughts and feelings about their baby between pregnancy and 10 months post birth as well as the relationship between the quality of these feelings and the child's later attachment security. To assess mothers' feelings, 49 first time mothers were interviewed during their third trimester of pregnancy using the Pregnancy Interview (PI), a semistructured interview assessing women's representations of their baby and of their overall experience of pregnancy, and at 10 months post birth using the Parent Development Interview (PDI) a similar semi-structured interview aimed at capturing a parent's representation of their affective experience of parenting and of their relationship to the child. The Strange Situation was used as the outcome measure to assess infant-mother attachment at 14 months. Results showed significant relationships between negative maternal affect in pregnancy and high degrees of maternal anger at ten months. Negative maternal affect in pregnancy also related to insecure attachment in the child, whereas positive maternal affect in pregnancy related to secure attachment in the child. At 10 months post birth, neither maternal anger or joy/pleasure related to child attachment security.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
