The purpose of this study was to examine character and behavior in a group of mentally ill and well mothers.
Mentally ill mothers differed from well mothers in mother‐child interaction in their positive involvement in the feeding context and in overall optimal mothering during feeding. On measures of intrapsychic conflict and concern, mentally ill mothers demonstrated significantly more conflict in areas of trust, anger, self‐esteem, mutuality and nurturance and more concern with issues of self‐esteem, and giving and caring than well mothers. For the mentally ill mothers postpartum onset of illness and number of separations from her child were related to some aspects of character and behavior.
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