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Antecedents of maternal parenting stress: the role of attachment style, prenatal attachment, and dyadic adjustment in first-time mothers.
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- Factors Associated With Maternal Depression, Anxiety and Mother-Infant Bonding in At-Risk Mothers During Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Observational
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- Partner support and relationship quality as potential resources for childbirth and the transition to parenthood.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- The protective effects of social support and family functioning on parenting stress among Hispanic/Latino/a American immigrant parents with traumatic life experiences: A mediation analysis.Infant mental health journal · 2023Article
- A Psychometric Study of the Perinatal Assessment of Maternal Affectivity (PAMA) for the Screening of Perinatal Affective Disorders in Mothers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Parenting Stress, Maternal Self-Efficacy and Confidence in Caretaking in a Sample of Mothers with Newborns (0-1 Month).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors associated with parenting stress in parents of 18-month-old children: Parenting stress in parents of toddlers.Child: care, health and development · 2022Article
- The relationship between maternal-fetus attachment and perceived parental bonds in pregnant women: Considering a possible mediating role of psychological distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Depressive symptoms, parental stress, and attachment style in mothers and fathers two and a half years after childbirth: Are fathers as affected as mothers?Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2021Article
- "Motherese" Prosody in Fetal-Directed Speech: An Exploratory Study Using Automatic Social Signal Processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Adult attachment style and maternal-infant bonding: the indirect path of parenting stress.BMC psychology · 2020Article
- Adult attachment orientations and well-being during the transition to parenthood.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Post-partum Depression Risk Factors: The Role of Socio-Demographic, Individual, Relational, and Delivery Characteristics.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- The Multiple Determinants of Maternal Parenting Stress 12 Months After Birth: The Contribution of Antenatal Attachment Style, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Infant Temperament.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Parenting Stress, Mental Health, Dyadic Adjustment: A Structural Equation Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
The transition to parenthood is widely considered a period of increased vulnerability often accompanied by stress. Abidin conceived parenting stress as referring to specific difficulties in adjusting to the parenting role. Most studies of psychological distress arising from the demands of parenting have investigated the impact of stress on the development of dysfunctional parent-child relationships and on adult and child psychopathology. Studies have largely focused on mothers' postnatal experience; less attention has been devoted to maternal prenatal characteristics associated with subsequent parental stress and studies of maternal prenatal predictors are few. Furthermore, no studies have examined that association exclusively with samples of first-time mothers. With an observational prospective study design with two time periods, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of mothers' attachment style, maternal prenatal attachment to the fetus and dyadic adjustment during pregnancy (7th months of gestation) and their potential unique contribution to parenting stress 3 months after childbirth in a sample of nulliparous women. Results showed significant correlations between antenatal measures. Maternal attachment style (especially relationship anxiety) was negatively correlated with prenatal attachment and with dyadic adjustment; positive correlations resulted between prenatal attachment and dyadic adjustment. Each of the investigated variables was also good predictor of parenting stress 3 months after childbirth. Findings suggested how these dimensions could be considered as risk factors in the transition to motherhood and in the very beginning of the emergence of the caregiving system, especially with first-time mothers.
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