Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Maternal-fetal bonding among pregnant women at psychosocial risk: The roles of adult attachment style, prenatal parental reflective functioning, and depressive symptoms
Originally published 2020-09-17 · PLoS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0239208 ↗
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What does prenatal bonding mean before a parent can observe a baby's behavior?
The authors compare prenatal reflection, adult attachment and reported bonding in a group selected for psychosocial risk.
Who was studied?
Pregnant women at psychosocial risk enrolled in a Danish perinatal intervention study
Age / stage: Pregnancy
Read with three questions
- What does prenatal bonding mean before a parent can observe a baby's behavior?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (pregnant women at psychosocial risk enrolled in a Danish perinatal intervention study) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Pregnant participants were selected for psychosocial risk and assessed before birth. A prenatal bond rating is distinct from the infant's later attachment behavior.
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Katrine Røhder; Mette Skovgaard Væver; Anne Kristine Aarestrup; Rikke Kart Jacobsen; Johanne Smith-Nielsen; Michaela L Schiøtz; Christine E East (2020). Maternal-fetal bonding among pregnant women at psychosocial risk: The roles of adult attachment style, prenatal parental reflective functioning, and depressive symptoms PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239208
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