Impact of Maternal Attachment Style on Mother to Infant Attachment

• Main Authors: Moghaddam Hoseini V, Jafar Nejhad F, Soltanifar A
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Qom University of Medical Sciences 2011-08-01
• Series: Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum
• Subjects: Infant Care; Infants; Mothers
• Online Access: http://journal.muq.ac.ir/library/upload/article/af_349334990.19.13.pdf
• ISSN: 1735-7799; 2008-1375

Background and Objectives: Maternal attachment has the potential to affect both child development and parenting. As such, mother-infant attachment has been considered an important topic in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between maternal adult attachment style, the maternal obstetric and demographic characteristics and mother-infant attachment.Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 102 women who had referred to health centers in Mashhad in 2008 and who had inclusion criteriawere selected using stratified cluster sampling. After interview about obstetric and demographic characteristics, they were asked to complete the "Revised Adult Attachment Scale" and "Mother to Infant Attachment Inventory" for assessment of maternal attachment style and mother-infant attachment 4-5 weeks after delivery. Data were analyzed by Pearson Correlation, Kruskal-wallis and Mann-whitney statistical tests.Results: In this study, themean of mother-infant attachment was found to be 97.486.12 and the mean of secure adult attachment was higher than that of other styles (16.893.97). Although, there were negative significant relationship between maternal avoidant style and mother-infant attachment (p=0.037,r=-0/20), there were no relationship between maternal age and education, parity, type of delivery and mother-infant attachment.Conclusion: The results of this research show that maternal attachment style is one of the factors of mother -infant attachment.