The assessment of parent-to-infant attachment: Development of a self-report questionnaire instrument

Condon, John T.; Corkindale, Carolyn

doi:10.1080/02646839808404558

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“…Although maternal psychological health in the present study was within a normal range for a community sample (see, Condon & Corkindale, 1998;Crawford, Henry, Crombie & Taylor, 2001;Davies et al, 2008;Jones et al, 2013;Tennant et al, 2007), maternal mood was negatively correlated with perceived mother-infant attachment (see also Davies et al, 2008). This correlation suggests that perceived mother-infant attachment might be a more appropriate measure of the mother-infant relationship than maternal perceptions of their infant's warmth and invasiveness used by Jones et al, (2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 47%

“…Studies typically consider scores of 0-8 as 'sub-clinical', 9-25 'mild reaction to trauma', 26-43 'moderate', and 44+ 'severe' (e.g., Chisholm, Freeman & Cooke, 2006). Condon & Corkindale, 1998): This 19 item self-report questionnaire provides a measure of mother-infant attachment (α = 0.78). The questions assessed quality of attachment (e.g., "Regarding my level of interaction with the baby I: feel very / moderately / slightly guilty that I am not more involved / I don't have any guilty feelings regarding this"), absence of hostility (e.g., "Regarding the things that we have had to give up because of the baby: I find that I resent it quite a lot / a moderate amount / a bit / I don't resent it at all") and pleasure in interaction ("When I am with the baby: I usually try to prolong the time I spend with him/her / I usually try to shorten the time I spend with him/her).…”

Section: Face/voice Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Taylor

Slade

Herbert

2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces. Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces.

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Section: Face/voice Stimulimentioning

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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Taylor

Slade

Herbert

2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…Prevalent rather than incident cases of PPD were included to maximize the generalizability of the research, as PPD commonly begins antenatally (Stowe et al, 2005). We assessed maternal-infant attachment in postpartum women with a 19-item self-report scale (Condon and Corkindale, 1998) completed on the scan day in order to characterize the sample and to explore associations with D 2/3 receptor binding. The psychometric properties of this scale were established by its authors in a sample of 260 perinatal women with a factor analysis that showed clustering of items onto three factors: quality of attachment, pleasure in interaction, and absence of hostility.…”

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Postpartum and Depression Status are Associated With Lower [11C]raclopride BPND in Reproductive-Age Women

Moses‐Kolko

Price

Wisner

et al. 2012

Neuropsychopharmacol

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The early postpartum period is associated with increased risk for affective and psychotic disorders. Because maternal dopaminergic reward system function is altered with perinatal status, dopaminergic system dysregulation may be an important mechanism of postpartum psychiatric disorders. Subjects included were non-postpartum healthy (n ¼ 13), postpartum healthy (n ¼ 13), nonpostpartum unipolar depressed (n ¼ 10), non-postpartum bipolar depressed (n ¼ 7), postpartum unipolar (n ¼ 13), and postpartum bipolar depressed (n ¼ 7) women. Subjects underwent 60 min of [ 11 C]raclopride-positron emission tomography imaging to determine the nondisplaceable striatal D 2/3 receptor binding potential (BP ND ). Postpartum status and unipolar depression were associated with lower striatal D 2/3 receptor BP ND in the whole striatum (p ¼ 0.05 and p ¼ 0.02, respectively) that reached a maximum of 7-8% in anteroventral striatum for postpartum status (p ¼ 0.02). Unipolar depression showed a nonsignificant trend toward being associated with 5% lower BP ND in dorsal striatum (p ¼ 0.06). D 2/3 receptor BP ND did not differ significantly between unipolar depressed and healthy postpartum women or between bipolar and healthy subjects; however, D 2/3 receptor BP ND was higher in dorsal striatal regions in bipolar relative to unipolar depressives (p ¼ 0.02). In conclusion, lower striatal D 2/3 receptor BP ND in postpartum and unipolar depressed women, primarily in ventral striatum, and higher dorsal striatal D 2/3 receptor BP ND in bipolar relative to unipolar depressives reveal a potential role for the dopamine (DA) system in the physiology of these states. Further studies delineating the mechanisms underlying these differences in D 2/3 receptor BP ND , including study of DA system responsivity to rewarding stimuli, and increasing power to assess unipolar vs bipolarrelated differences, are needed to better understand the affective role of the DA system in postpartum and depressed women.

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“…Some authors have defined and measured attachment through mothers' reports of their maternal feelings and behaviors (Condon & Corkindale, 1998;Scopesi, Viterbori, Sponza, & Zucchinetti, 2004). Maternal behaviors related to secure mother-infant attachment are the reading of a baby's signals or interpreting the infant's needs and consistently responding to those signals (Nicely, Tamis-LeMonda, & Grolnick, 1999;Werner & Smith, 1992), positive interaction with the child (Harnish, Dodge, & Valente, 1995), and empathic understanding or emotional matching (Oppenheim, 2001).…”

Section: Parent Factors That Influence Attachment Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides the Strange Situation and the Attachment Q-sort, there are currently seven other measures which are purported to specifically measure attachment security between mothers and infants. These measures are: the California Attachment Procedure (Clarke-Stewart, Goossens, & Allhusen, 2001), the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (Condon & Corkindale, 1998), the Mother-Infant-ToddlerAttachment System (MITAS; Egblomasse, 1999), the Child Attachment Questionnaire (CAQ; Huggar, 1999), the Differential Social Reaction Procedure (Klein, Suwalsky, McCarthy, & Gist, 1982), the Maternal Attachment Inventory (Muller, 1994), and the Attachment Q-Sort Questionnaire (AQSQ; Robinson, 1995). None of these measures have been used extensively and psychometric information is limited.…”

Section: Assessment Of Attachmentmentioning

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Mother-Child Attachment and Preschool Behavior Problems in Children with Developmental Delays

Peacock¹,

LaMont²

2009

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Secure mother-child attachment has been found to be an important factor in the healthy emotional development of children and has been shown to have effects on child, adolescent, and adult behavior. Previous research has primarily focused on attachment in children who are typically developing. However, little research has been conducted in populations of children with developmental delays. The research thus far has suggested that medical situations, child disabilities and maternal emotions may affect interaction patterns between the mother and the child which may in turn influence the security of the mother-child attachment in children with developmental delays. This study contributes to the literature now available. Seventy-four mothers of 1½-to 2-year-old children in an early intervention program completed a series of questionnaires. Two previously developed pencil-paper measures of attachment behaviors were selected for use in the study due to ease of administration and replication and the need for generalization of

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The assessment of parent-to-infant attachment: Development of a self-report questionnaire instrument

Cited by 409 publications

References 28 publications

Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Postpartum and Depression Status are Associated With Lower [11C]raclopride BPND in Reproductive-Age Women

Mother-Child Attachment and Preschool Behavior Problems in Children with Developmental Delays

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