ArticleInfant mental health journal2020
The My Emotions Questionnaire: A self-report of mothers' emotional responses to infant crying.
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- Prenatal Psychological Adjustment, Relationship Satisfaction, and Parental Reflective Functioning: An Examination of Actor and Partner Effects in the Context of Paternal Moderate to Heavy Drinking.Parenting, science and practice · 2025Article
- Interactions between poor sleep and negative social cognition pose risk for lower maternal sensitivity.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- Interactive effects of maternal physiological arousal and regulation on maternal sensitivity: Replication and extension in an independent sample.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
- Prenatal affective cognitive training: A proof-of-concept study.Neuroscience applied · 2023Article
- An evaluation of Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC/Possums Programs) in the First 12 Months of Life.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Empathy and Hormonal Changes as Predictors of Sensitive Responsiveness towards Infant Crying: A Study Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this article was to examine the psychometrics of the My Emotions Questionnaire, a self-report designed to assess mothers' emotional reactions when their infants cry. Participants were 240 first-time mothers. When infants were 6 months and 1 year old, mothers completed the new questionnaire and measures assessing beliefs and behavioral responses to infant crying, and interview-based measures of mothers' emotional reactions and causal attributions about crying were administered. Maternal sensitivity and negative behaviors were observed when infants were 6 months and 1 and 2 years old. Mothers reported on their discipline practices when children were 2 years old. Five emotion factors emerged based on exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the 6-month data: Amusement, Anxiety, Frustration, Sympathy, and Protective. The five-factor structure was supported via a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the 1-year data. All scales demonstrated adequate internal consistency reliability and significant stability from 6 months to 1 year. Amusement, Frustration, and Protectiveness demonstrated the best convergent validity with cry cognitions and predictive validity to parenting measures, followed by Anxiety, although effects tended to be small to moderate. Evidence for the validity of Sympathy was less compelling. The potential utility of the questionnaire for basic and applied research is discussed.
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