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Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History

Given the positive impact of high-quality mother–infant interaction on child development, and that such relationship might be hindered by maternal stresses such past cancer, research is needed to understand protective and risk factors in this clinical population. As almost no data is available on th...

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Autores principales: Bozicevic, Laura, Ponti, Lucia, Smorti, Martina, Pravettoni, Gabriella, Peccatori, Fedro Alessandro, Cassani, Chiara, Nastasi, Giuseppe, Sarchi, Valentina, Bonassi, Lucia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9231582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756312
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913482
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author Bozicevic, Laura
Ponti, Lucia
Smorti, Martina
Pravettoni, Gabriella
Peccatori, Fedro Alessandro
Cassani, Chiara
Nastasi, Giuseppe
Sarchi, Valentina
Bonassi, Lucia
author_facet Bozicevic, Laura
Ponti, Lucia
Smorti, Martina
Pravettoni, Gabriella
Peccatori, Fedro Alessandro
Cassani, Chiara
Nastasi, Giuseppe
Sarchi, Valentina
Bonassi, Lucia
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description Given the positive impact of high-quality mother–infant interaction on child development, and that such relationship might be hindered by maternal stresses such past cancer, research is needed to understand protective and risk factors in this clinical population. As almost no data is available on the impact of history of cancer on the quality of mother–infant interaction, a multicentric and longitudinal pilot study was conducted. Differences in women’s prenatal psychological well-being and attachment (T1, third trimester), and postnatal quality of mother–infant interaction (T2, 2–5 months) were assessed in a sample of Italian mothers with (N = 11) or without cancer history (N = 13). Results showed that women did not differ significantly in their prenatal well-being (assessed with the Profile of Mood States questionnaire) and levels of attachment (assessed with the Prenatal Attachment Inventory). Looking at mother–infant interactions (assessed using the Global Rating Scale at T2), while maternal sensitivity, warmth and intrusiveness, and infant distress and attentiveness did not differ between the two groups, in the clinical group, mothers were more remote and less absorbed in the infant, and infants showed fewer positive communications. These findings might shed light on potential protective and risk factors for early parenting and later child outcomes in this clinical population.
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spelling pubmed-92315822022-06-25 Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History Bozicevic, Laura Ponti, Lucia Smorti, Martina Pravettoni, Gabriella Peccatori, Fedro Alessandro Cassani, Chiara Nastasi, Giuseppe Sarchi, Valentina Bonassi, Lucia Front Psychol Psychology Given the positive impact of high-quality mother–infant interaction on child development, and that such relationship might be hindered by maternal stresses such past cancer, research is needed to understand protective and risk factors in this clinical population. As almost no data is available on the impact of history of cancer on the quality of mother–infant interaction, a multicentric and longitudinal pilot study was conducted. Differences in women’s prenatal psychological well-being and attachment (T1, third trimester), and postnatal quality of mother–infant interaction (T2, 2–5 months) were assessed in a sample of Italian mothers with (N = 11) or without cancer history (N = 13). Results showed that women did not differ significantly in their prenatal well-being (assessed with the Profile of Mood States questionnaire) and levels of attachment (assessed with the Prenatal Attachment Inventory). Looking at mother–infant interactions (assessed using the Global Rating Scale at T2), while maternal sensitivity, warmth and intrusiveness, and infant distress and attentiveness did not differ between the two groups, in the clinical group, mothers were more remote and less absorbed in the infant, and infants showed fewer positive communications. These findings might shed light on potential protective and risk factors for early parenting and later child outcomes in this clinical population. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9231582/ /pubmed/35756312 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913482 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bozicevic, Ponti, Smorti, Pravettoni, Peccatori, Cassani, Nastasi, Sarchi and Bonassi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Bozicevic, Laura
Ponti, Lucia
Smorti, Martina
Pravettoni, Gabriella
Peccatori, Fedro Alessandro
Cassani, Chiara
Nastasi, Giuseppe
Sarchi, Valentina
Bonassi, Lucia
Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title_full Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title_fullStr Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title_full_unstemmed Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title_short Psychological Well-Being, Prenatal Attachment, and Quality of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Pilot Study With a Sample of Mothers With or Without Cancer History
title_sort psychological well-being, prenatal attachment, and quality of early mother-infant interaction: a pilot study with a sample of mothers with or without cancer history
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9231582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756312
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913482
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