Children life will be very dependent on the intensive care provided by mother. During child-rearing process, an emotional bond established in interaction between mother and child. The purpose of this study was to explore parenting styles mothers for toddlers Bali. subjects were 66 with children under five Bali who came from working mothers, at home, housewives, sample determined using a purposi...

BACKGROUND The stress that results from preterm birth, requisite acute care and prolonged physical separation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can have adverse physiological/psychological effects on both the infant and the mother. In particular, the experience compromises the establishment and maintenance of optimal mother-infant relationship, the subsequent development of the infant,...

Infant attachment is a critical indicator of healthy infant social-emotional functioning, which typically measured using the gold-standard Strange Situation Procedure (SSP). However, expert-based classifications from SSP are time-intensive (with respect both to expert training and rating), do not provide an objective, continuous record behavior. To continuously quantify predictors key behaviors...

Survival of altricial infants depends on attachment to the caregiver - a process that requires infants to identify, learn, remember, and approach their attachment figure. Here we review the neurobiology of attachment in infant rats where learning about the caregiver is supported by a specialized attachment neural circuitry to promote the infant-caregiver relationship. Specifically, the attachme...

This study examined the relation between attachment to opposite sex parents and attachment to romantic partners. Previous research has indicated that attachments to parents closely resemble attachments to romantic partners (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). However, little research has examined whether attachment to the mother or father is more predictive of attachment to romantic partners, and whether th...

Maternal mental health and the contents of her representational world are important determinants of early parent–child relationship. We examined, first, the role of prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms and maternal attachment style in predicting the quality of mother–child interaction. Second, we analysed whether the secure-autonomous attachment style can protect the dyadic interaction fr...

the purpose of present research was comparing tendency to risky behaviours in secure/insecure attachment in parents (mother/father). the results showed that those showing insecure attachment patterns towards the mother were significantly higher at risk to become cigarette smokers, drug persuasion, and alcohol drinkers compared to those with secure attachment patterns. those showing insecure att...

There is a growing consensus among psychologists, midwives, lactation consultants, physicians and others who are concerned with the early perinatal period that there is a “sensitive period” (Odent, Klauss) immediately following a physiologically normal birth. During this brief period a very unique hormonal milieu, orchestrated by the birth itself, drives maternal-infant interactions. These inte...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to investigate the mother-toddler relationship in preterm toddlers. METHODS The sample consisted of 18 mothers and their preterm toddlers (group 1) and 20 mothers and their fullterm toddlers (group 2). Anxiety and depressive symptom levels, attachment pattern, and parental attitudes of mothers and social-emotional problems and developmental level of the toddlers were exp...