Maternal anxiety following delivery, early infant temperament and mother´s confidence in caregiving

  1. Jover, Manuel 1
  2. Colomer Revuelta, Julia 1
  3. Carot, José Miguel 1
  4. Larsson, Christina 1
  5. Bobes Bascarán, María Teresa 1
  6. Ivorra, Jose Luis 1
  7. Martín Brufau, Ramón 1
  8. Sanjuán Arias, Julio 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
    info

    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 17

Páginas: 1-12

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1017/SJP.2014.87 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

Objetivos de desarrollo sostenible

Resumen

A mother�s emotional state is a well-known environmental factor that relates to the development of infant temperament. However, some relevant issues have not yet been fully explored. The current study examines the influence of determined maternal, contextual and perinatal variables on infant temperament and the mother�s confidence in caregiving during the first weeks of life. A prospective study was carried out in three-hundred and seventeen newborns and their mothers. Perinatal and socio-demographic variables were recorded. The mother�s anxiety and mood were measured in the first days after childbirth and again at 8 weeks. Infant temperament and the mother�s confidence in caregiving were measured at 8 weeks. A mother�s postpartum anxiety following delivery was the best predictor for most of the variables of infant temperament, including infant irritability (p = .001), and other child variables like infant sleep (p = .0003) and nursing difficulty (p = .001). Contextual-family variables, such as the number of people at home (p = .0024) and whether they were primiparous (p = .001), were the best predictors for a mother´s confidence in caregiving. Support was found for an early effect of maternal anxiety on infant temperament. The results have clinical implications for postnatal psychological interventions.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Austin M. P., Hadzi-Pavlovic D., Leader L., Saint K., & Parker G. (2005). Maternal trait anxiety, depression and life event stress in pregnancy: Relationships with infant temperament. Early Human Development, 81, 183-190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2004.07.001
  • Beck C. T. (1996). A meta-analysis of the relationships between postpartum depression and infant temperament. Nursing Research, 45, 225-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006199-199607000-00006
  • Biggs D., Ville B., & Suen E. (1991). A method of choosing multiway partions for classifcation and decision trees. Journal of Applied Statistics, 18, 49-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02664769100000005
  • Brazelton T. B., & Nugent J. K. (1995). The Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale (3rd Ed.). London, UK: Mac Keith Press.
  • Bridgett D. J., Gartstein M. A., Putnam S. P., McKay T., Iddins E., Robertson C., & Rittmueller A. (2009). Maternal and contextual infuences and the effect of temperamental development during infancy on parenting in toddlerhood. Infant Behavior Development, 32, 103-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.10.007
  • Britton J. R. (2011). Infant temperament and maternal anxiety and depressed mood in the early postpartum period. Women health, 51, 55-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2011.540741
  • Coplan R. J., ÓNeil K., & Arbeau K. A. (2005). Maternal anxiety during and after pregnancy and infant temperament at three months of age. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 19, 199-215.
  • Chen H. Y., Hou T. W., & Chuang C. H. (2010). Applying data mining to explore the risk factors of parenting stress. Expert Systems with Applications, 37, 598-601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.028
  • Cox J. L., Holden J. M., & Sagovsky R. (1987). Detection of postnatal depression. Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 782-786. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.150.6.782
  • Damon W., Lerner R. M., & Eisenberg N. (2006). Handbook of child psychology, social, emotional, and personality development (Vol. 3). New Jersey, NJ: Wiley. Hoboken.
  • Denis A., Ponsin M., & Callahan S. (2012). The relationship between maternal self-esteem, maternal competence, infant temperament and post-partum blues. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 30, 388-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2012.718751
  • DiPietro J. A., Novak M. F. S. X., Costigan K. A., Atella L. D., & Reusing S. P. (2006). Maternal psychological distress during pregnancy in relation to child development at age two. Child Development, 77, 573-587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00891.x
  • Edhborg M., Seimyr L., Lundh W., & Widström A.-M. (2000). Fussy child-diffcult parenthood? Comparisons between families with a depressed mother and non-depressed mother 2 months postpartum. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 18, 225-238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713683036
  • Field T., Sandberg D., Garcia R., Vega-Lahr N., Goldstein S., & Guy L. (1985) Pregnancy problems, postpartum depression and early mother-infant interactions. Development Psychology, 21, 1152-1156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.21.6.1152
  • Ferretti F., Franca F., & Folin M. (2012). Risk factors associated with postnatal depressive symptomatology: A study conducted in the southern area of the local health unit of Modena. Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, 37, 138-144.
  • Foreman D. M., & Henshaw C. (2002). Objetivity and subjetivity in postnatally depressed mothers̈perceptions of their infants. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 32, 263-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015266410308
  • García-Esteve L., Ascaso C., Ojuel J., & Navarro P. (2003). Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in Spanish mothers. Journal of Affective Disorders, 75, 71-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00020-4
  • Grace S. L., Evindar A., & Stewart D. E. (2003). The effect of postpartum depression on child cognitive development and behavior: A review and critical analysis of the literature. Archives of Womeńs Mental Health, 6, 263-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-003-0024-6
  • Grant V. V., Bagnell A. L., Chambers C. T., & Stewart S. H. (2009). Early temperament prospectively predicts anxiety in later childhood. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 54, 320-330.
  • Gray P. H., Edwards D. M., O'Callaghan M. J., Cuskelly M., & Gibbons K. (2013). Parenting stress in mothers of very preterm infants - Infuence of development, temperament and maternal depression. Early Human Development, 89, 625-629. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.04.005
  • Hane A. A., Fox N. A., Polak-Toste C., Ghera M. M., & Guner B. M. (2006). Contextual basis of maternal perceptions of infant temperament. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1077-1088. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.1077
  • Hanington L., Ramchandani P., & Stein A. (2010). Parental depression and child temperament: Assessing child to parent effects in a longitudinal population study. Infant Behavior Development, 33, 88-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.11.004
  • Huizink A. C., Robles de Medina P. G., Mulder E. J. H., Visser G. H., & Buitelaar J. K. (2002). Psychological measures of prenatal stress as predictor of infant temperament. Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 41, 1078-1085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-200209000-00008
  • Ivorra J. L., Sanjuan J., Jover M., Carot J. M., de Frutos R., & Molto M. D. (2010). Gene-environment interaction of child temperament. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 31, 545-554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0b013e3181ee4072
  • Kaitz M. (2007). Maternal concerns during early parenthood. Child Care and Health Development, 33, 720-727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00729.x
  • Kagan J., & Snidman N. (1991). Temperamental factors in human development. American Psychology, 46, 856-862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0003-066X.46.8.856
  • Kagan J., & Snidman N. (1999). Early childhood predictors of adult anxiety disorders. Biologist Psychiatry, 46, 1536-1541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00137-7
  • Kass G. V. (1980). An exploratory technique for investigating large quantities of categorical data. Applied Statistics, 29, 119-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2986296
  • Lahey B. B., van Hulle C. A., Keenan K., Rathouz P. J., DOnofrio B. M., Rodgers J. L., & Waldman I. D. (2008). Temperament and parenting during the frst year of life predict future child conduct problems. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 1139-1158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-008-9247-3
  • Li R., Fein S. B., & Grummer-Strawn L. M. (2008). Association of breastfeeding intensity and bottle-emptying behaviors at early infancy with infants' risk for excess weight at late infancy. Pediatrics, 122, 77-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2008-1315j
  • Luoma I., Tammminen T., Kaukonen P., Laippola P., Puura K., Salmelin R., & Almquist F. (2001). Longitudinal study of maternal depressive symptoms and child well-being. Journal of American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1367-1374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-200112000-00006
  • Manly B. F. J. (1990). Multivariate statistical methods. A primer (4rd Ed.) Bristol, UK: Chapman and Hall.
  • Martin R. P., Noyes J. N., & Wisenbaker J. (1999). Prediction of early childhood negative emotionality and inhibition from maternal distress during pregnancy. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 45, 370-391. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/23092578
  • May K. M., & Hu J. (2000). Caregiving and help seeking by mothers of low birthweight infants and mothers of normal birthweight infants. Public Health Nurse, 17, 273-279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1446.2000.00273.x
  • McGrath J. M., Records K., & Rice M. (2008). Maternal depression and infant temperament characteristics. Infant Behavior Development, 31, 71-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.07.001
  • McMahon C., Barnett B., Kowalenko N., Tennant C., & Don N. (2001). Postnatal depression, anxiety and unsettled infant behavior. Australian and New Zealand. Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 581-588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0004867010060505
  • McMeekin S., Jansen E., Mallan K., Nicholson J., Magarey A., & Daniels L. (2013). Associations between infant temperament and early feeding practices. A cross-sectional study of Australian mother-infant dyads from the NOURISH randomised controlled trial. Appetite, 60, 239-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.10.005
  • Melchior M., Chastang J. F., de Lauzon B., Galéra C., Saurel-Cubizolles M. J., & Larroque B. (2012). Maternal depression, socioeconomic position, and temperament in early childhood: The EDEN mother-child cohort study group. Journal of Affective Disorders, 137, 165-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.09.018
  • Murray L., Stanley C., Hooper R., King F., & Fiori-Cowley A. (1996). The role of infant factors in postnatal depression and mother-infant interactions. Development Medicine and Child Neurology, 38, 109-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb12082.x
  • Murray L., & Cooper P. (1997). Postpartum depression and child development. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Murray L., Sinclair D., Cooper P., Ducournau P., Turner P., & Stein A. (1999).The socioemotional development of 5 year-old children of postnatally depressed mothers. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 1259-1271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00542
  • Najman J., Williams G., Nikles J., Spense S., Bor W., ÓCallaghan M., & Andersen M. J. (2000). Mothers̈ mental illness and child behavior problems: Cause-effect association or observation bias? Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 592-602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-200005000-00013
  • Ó Connor T. G., Heron J., Golding J., Beveridge M., & Glover V. (2002). Maternal antenatal anxiety and children behavioral/emotional problems at 4 years. British Journal of Psychiatry, 180, 502-508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.180.6.502
  • O'Hara M. W., & McCabe J. E. (2013). Postpartum depression: Current status and future directions. Annual review of clinical psychology, 9, 379-407. http://10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050212-185612
  • Olafsen K. S., Kaaresen P. I., Handegard B. H., Ulvund S. E., Dahl L. B., & Ronning J. A. (2008). Maternal ratings of infant regulatory competence from 6 to 12 months: Infuence of perceived stress, birth-weight, and intervention: Arandomized controlled trial. Infant Behavior Development, 31, 408-421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.12.005
  • Pauli-Pott U., Mertesacker B., & Beckmann D. (2005). Comparing assessments methods of infant emotionality. Kinder Jugendpsychiatry Psychotherapy, 33, 125-135.
  • Pridham K., Lin C. Y., & Brown R. (2001). Motheŕs evaluation of their caregiving for premature and full-term infants through the frst year: contributing factors. Research in Nurse Health, 24, 157-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nur.1019
  • Righetti-Veltema M., Conne-Perréard E., Bousquet A., & Manzano J. (2002). Postpartum depresssion and mother-infant relationship at 3 months old. Journal of Affective Disorders, 70, 291-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0327(01)00367-6
  • Sanson A., Prior M., & Oberklaid F. (1998). Temperamental infuences on psychosocial adjustment: From infancy to adolescence. Australian Educative and Development Psychology, 15, 7-38.
  • Santamaría Lozano R. (2009). Maternidad hospitalaria. Estándares y recomendaciones [Hospital maternity. Standards and recomendations] (1st Ed.). Madrid, Spain: Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social.
  • Shiner R. L., Buss K. A., McClowry S. G., Putnam S. P., Saudino K. J., & Zentner M. (2012). What is temperament now? Assessing progress in temperament research on the twenty-ffth anniversary of Goldsmith et al. Child Development Perspectives, 6, 436-444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00254.x
  • Tenenbaum G., Furst D., & Weingarten G. A. (1985). Statistical reevaluation of the STAI Anxiety Questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 239-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(198503)41:2%3C239::AID-JCLP2270410218%3E3.0.CO;2-5
  • van der Bergh B., Mulder E., & Mennes M. (2005). Antenatal maternal anxiety and stress and the neurobehavioral development of the fetus and child: links and possible mechanisms. A review. Neuro Behavioral Review, 29, 237-258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.10.007
  • Vaughn B. E., Bradley C. F., Joffe L. S., Seifer R., & Barglow P. (1987). Maternal characteristics measured prenatally are predictive of ratings of temperamental diffculty on the Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaire. Development Psychology, 23, 152-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0012-1649.23.1.152
  • Worobey J. (1986). Convergence among assessments of temperament in the frst month. Child Development, 57, 47-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1986.tb00005.x
  • Worobey J., Islas Lopez M., & Hoffman D. J. (2009). Maternal behavior and infant weight gain in the frst year. Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 41, 169-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2008.06.005
Fuente de los datos: Dialnet