| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2002-058.12 |
| Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pastas 15 a 16/2002
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Title:
| Envolvimento emocional inicial dos pais com o bebé
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| Publication year: | 2005
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URL:
| http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/4715
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| Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Although child attachment toward the parents has been largely studied, we still have a lot to know about how parents attach to infants. Nevertheless, the literature has been highlighting for so long that the parents’ emotional involvement is a determinant factor in the quality of the interaction and the care that they provided to the child. This study investigates the parents’ initial emotional bonding toward the newborn, attending to 3 main objectives: (1) to describe parents’ emotional involvement with the infant in the first postpartum week, (2) to analyse differences in the initial emotional bonding, between mothers and fathers; 3) to evaluate changes in the mother’s emotional involvement with the infant during the first postpartum week. The Bonding Scale (Figueiredo, Marques, Costa, Pacheco, & Pais, 2004) was administrated to 150 mothers, 24 hours after the delivery, and to 315 mothers and 141 fathers (N=456), at 1 to 2 days postpartum (at the Júlio Dinis Maternity Hospital. Porto). The results show that in the week following the delivery, most mothers and fathers report: (1) high positive emotional involvement (71% and 73%, respectively); (2) at least one emotion not clearly related with bonding (76% and 70.9%, respectively); (3) no negative emotions toward the infant (although some negative emotional involvement is present in 21% of the mothers and 16.3% of the fathers). Results also show that 48 hours after delivery mother’s and father’s emotional involvement toward the newborn is not so different, but mothers feel significantly more sad, possessive and fearful, and in general have more emotions not clearly related with bonding as well as worse bonding than fathers. The results also show that mothers are significantly less fearful in the presence of the infant at day 2 than at day 1, and emotions not clearly related with bonding tend to decrease in the first following delivery days. We conclude that in the first week after childbirth, (1) most mothers and fathers have high positive involvement, at least one emotion not clearly related with bonding, low or absent negative emotional involvement with the infant. (2) Fathers have a better initial bonding with the newborn than mothers. (3) In a very short period of time (1 day) slightly positive changes in the quality of the mother’s emotions toward the child can be observed. We also conclude that studying the parents’ emotional involvement with the baby and considering the conditions that might benefit the mother’s and father’s emotional involvement, in the moments that follow childbirth, are very important issues.
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| Accessibility: | Document does not exist in file
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Language:
| por
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Author:
| Figueiredo, B.
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Secondary author(s):
| Costa, R., Marques, A., Pacheco, A., Pais, A.
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Document type:
| Article
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Figueiredo, B., Costa, R., Marques A., Pacheco, A., & Pais, A. (2005). Envolvimento emocional inicial dos pais com o bebé. Acta Pediátrica Portuguesa, 36(2/3), 121-131.
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| Indexed document: | No
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| Keywords: | Infant / Bonding / Emotional involvement / Mother / Father / Attachment
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