Adverse Childhood Experiences and Maternal-Fetal Attachment: Indirect Associations via Prenatal Depressive Symptoms in a Romanian Sample.

Risvan Vlad Rusu, Dan Octavian Rusu, Cristian Delcea

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Risvan Vlad RusuDepartment of Research, Institute of Sexology, 400394 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Dan Octavian RusuDepartment of Applied Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 4305849 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-8432-1965

Cristian DelceaMultidisciplinary Doctoral School, Vasile Goldiș Western University of Arad, 310025 Arad, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-0667-2898

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Abstract

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with increased vulnerability to depressive symptoms during pregnancy and may also be related to emerging prenatal relational processes. This cross-sectional study examined whether prenatal depressive symptoms statistically accounted for the association between ACEs and maternal-fetal attachment (MFA), and whether this indirect association varied as a function of perceived social support from partners, family, and friends. The sample included 149 Romanian women in the first trimester of their first pregnancy. Participants completed self-report measures assessing ACEs, prenatal depressive symptoms, MFA, and perceived social support. Conditional process analyses were conducted using PROCESS Model 7, controlling for maternal age and perceived socioeconomic status. Higher ACEs were significantly associated with increased prenatal depressive symptoms (b = 0.43,

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adverse childhood experiencesmaternal–fetal attachmentperceived social supportperinatal mental healthpregnancyprenatal depressive symptoms

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PMID42352744

DOI10.3390/bs16060911

PMCPMC13295429

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