Attachment insecurity moderates the link between maternal childhood neglect and postpartum bonding to the infant.
Adverse childhood experiences
Attachment
Neglect
Parent-infant dyads
Journal
Archives of women's mental health
ISSN: 1435-1102
Titre abrégé: Arch Womens Ment Health
Pays: Austria
ID NLM: 9815663
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2022
04 2022
Historique:
received:
06
04
2021
accepted:
10
07
2021
pubmed:
29
7
2021
medline:
25
3
2022
entrez:
28
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Mothers who experienced childhood neglect are at increased risk of parenting difficulties in adulthood, but adult attachment relationships may be protective. Eighty-eight postpartum women seeking outpatient psychiatric care completed self-report measures on adverse childhood experiences, adult attachment, mental health symptoms, and bonding. Beyond the effects of maternal mental health on bonding, childhood neglect predicted bonding difficulties only in mothers with more insecure attachments, suggesting adult attachment as a potential point of intervention to reduce the intergenerational transmission of risk.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34318376
doi: 10.1007/s00737-021-01163-y
pii: 10.1007/s00737-021-01163-y
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
517-520Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
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