APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Mothers’ Prenatal Sense of Purpose and Meaning Predicts Postpartum Infant Bonding and Parenting Behavior
- Pia Sellery
USC - Elizabeth Aviv
University of Southern California - Darby Saxbe
University of Southern California
Abstract
The current study investigates associations between parents’ prenatal sense of purpose and meaning (PM) and postpartum infant bonding (IB) and parenting behaviors (PB). An actor-partner interdependence model demonstrated a significant actor effect of mothers’ prenatal PM on postpartum IB and PB, and an approaching significant partner effect for fathers’ PB.
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