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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2025

The relationship between mindful self-care and maternal-fetal attachment in pregnant women: the parallel mediating effects of positive and negative affect.

Lika Xu, Xueyi Sun, Yifan Liu, Yujie Chen, Caiyun Wang, Ting Li, Hanjiao Liu, Junfan Wei, Meng Li

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Lika XuDepartment of Obstetrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Xueyi SunDepartment of Obstetrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Yifan LiuDepartment of Histology and Embryology, North Henan Medical College, Xinxiang, China.
Yujie ChenDepartment of Obstetrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Caiyun WangDepartment of Obstetrics, Zhengzhou Central Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Ting LiDepartment of Obstetrics, South China Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Hanjiao LiuNursing Department, Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shenzhen, China.
Junfan WeiSeventh Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China.
Meng LiNursing Department, The Third People's Hospital of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China.

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate the relationship between mindful self-care and maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) and parallel mediating effects of positive and negative affect among pregnant women. Methods: A cross-sectional survey using convenience sampling from June 2025 to July 2025 in six tertiary hospitals in Henan and Guangdong province. A total of 351 pregnant women were recruited and a questionnaire including socio-demographic characteristics, positive and negative affect scale and maternal antenatal attachment scale was used. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Harman's single-factor test, Pearson correlation analysis, and parallel mediation analysis were conducted. Results: Correlation analysis showed that mindful self-care, positive affect, negative affect and MFA were all significantly correlated with each other, respectively. Once positive affect and negative affect were included as mediators, the direct effect of mindful self-care on MFA was no longer significant, suggesting that positive affect and negative affect fully mediated the relationship between mindful self-care and MFA. Conclusion: Positive and negative affect play parallel mediating roles in the relationship between mindful self-care and MFA, emphasizing the critical role of emotion regulation in developing prenatal MFA and underscore the important value of mindful self-care as a psychological resource during pregnancy, which provides new perspectives for future theoretical models and intervention designs.

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maternal-fetal attachmentmaternal healthmediating effectmindfulregulation of emotionself-care

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