Mother-to-Infant and Father-to-Infant Initial Emotional Involvement

Autor/inn/en	Figueiredo, Barbara; Costa, Raquel; Pacheco, Alexandra; Pais, Alvaro
Titel	Mother-to-Infant and Father-to-Infant Initial Emotional Involvement
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 177 (2007) 5, S.521-532 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Measures (Individuals); Neonates; Birth; Mothers; Fear; Fathers; Emotional Response; Parent Child Relationship; Infants; Attachment Behavior; Gender Differences; Negative Attitudes; Individual Characteristics; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Messdaten; Neugeborenes Kind; Geburt; Mother; Mutter; Furcht; Emotionales Verhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Negative Fixierung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	While infant attachment has been largely studied, parental attachment is still relatively unknown, especially when referred to fathers. However, it is mainly recognised that parents' emotional involvement with the newborn contributes to the quality of the interaction and the care they provide. The aim of this study was to study mother-to-infant and father-to-infant initial emotional involvement; namely, differences between mothers and fathers and changes in mother's emotions toward the neonate within the first days after delivery. The Bonding Scale, an extended Portuguese version of the "New Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale", was administered during the first two days after childbirth to a sample of 315 mothers and 141 fathers (n = 456), at the Julio Dinis Maternity Hospital (Portugal). Most mothers and fathers show positive emotions and only a few of them showed negative emotions toward the infant. Maternal and paternal emotional involvement toward the newborn tend to be similar; nevertheless, fathers show less fear and better emotional involvement with the neonate, while mothers are sadder and show more emotions not related to bonding. During the first days following delivery, emotions not related to bonding, such as fear, seem to decrease in mothers. (Contains 6 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10