Observational studySocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2020
Maternal personality traits, antenatal depressive symptoms and the postpartum mother-infant relationship: a prospective observational study.
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- Preconception parental personality disorder and psychosocial outcomes during the perinatal period: a prospective population-based study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- A psychometric evaluation of the NICHD Parent-Infant Interaction Scales to inform clinical practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assessing characteristics of mother-infant dyadic synchrony among vulnerable mothers using the Infant CARE-Index.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2025Article
- Investigating Learning, Decision-Making, and Mental Health in Pregnancy: Insights From a UK Cohort Study.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal associations between parental mental health and the duration of visual attention and facial expressions during at-home parent-infant interactions: a UK birth cohort study.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Maternal stress and vulnerability to depression: coping and maternal care strategies and its consequences on adolescent offspring.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Postpartum evaluation of the role of maternal characteristics and mode of delivery on maternal attachment, anxiety and depression; a study conducted in Turkey'.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Effect of Depressive Disorders and Their Pharmacological Treatment during Pregnancy on Maternal and Neonatal Outcome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Mediational models of maternal stress in neonatal intensive care units.Pediatric medicine (Hong Kong, China) · 2022Article
- Perinatal mental health: a review of progress and challenges.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2020Article
- Chronic Depression Alters Mothers' DHEA and DEHA-to-Cortisol Ratio: Implications for Maternal Behavior and Child Outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeMaternal depression has been associated with bonding difficulties and lower maternal sensitivity in observed mother-infant interactions. However, little research has examined the impact of disordered personality traits in mothers on these outcomes. We investigated the association between disordered personality traits in mothers measured during pregnancy and postnatal (a) self-reported bonding with infant; (b) observational mother-infant interactions.
methodsFive hundred fifty-six women were recruited during early pregnancy and subsequently followed up at mid-pregnancy (approximately 28 weeks' gestation) and when infants were aged approximately 3 months (n = 459). During early pregnancy, data were collected on disordered personality traits (using the Standardised Assessment of Personality Abbreviated Scale) and depressive symptoms (using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale). At 3 months postpartum, self-reported perceived bonding (using the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire) were collected. A sub-sample of women additionally provided observational mother-infant interaction data (n = 206) (coded using the Child-Adult Relationship Experimental Index).
resultsHigher disordered personality traits was not associated with maternal perceptions of bonding impairment, but was associated with reduced maternal sensitivity during observational mother-infant interactions [adjusted for age, education, having older children, substance misuse prior to pregnancy, infant sex and gestational age: coefficient = - 0.28, 95% CI = - 0.56 to - 0.00, p < 0.05]. After adjusting for depressive symptoms, the association was attenuated [coefficient = - 0.19, 95% CI = - 0.48 to 0.11, p = 0.217].
conclusionsMothers with disordered personality traits did not perceive themselves as having bonding impairments with their infants but were less sensitive during observed interactions, though depressive symptoms attenuated this relationship. Both depression and disordered personality traits need to be addressed to optimize mother-infant interactions.
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