Journal article
Maternal Bonding through Pregnancy and Postnatal: Findings from an Australian Longitudinal Study
L Rossen, D Hutchinson, J Wilson, L Burns, S Allsop, EJ Elliott, S Jacobs, JA MacDonald, C Olsson, RP Mattick
American Journal of Perinatology | THIEME MEDICAL PUBL INC | Published : 2017
Abstract
Background: Mother-infant bonding provides the foundation for secure attachment through the lifespan and organizes many facets of infant social-emotional development, including later parenting. Aims: To describe maternal bonding to offspring across the pregnancy and postnatal periods, and to examine a broad range of sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors of the maternal-offspring bond. Methods: Data were drawn from a sample of 372 pregnant women participating in an Australian population-based longitudinal study of postnatal health and development. Participants completed maternal bonding questionnaires at each trimester and 8 weeks postnatal. Data were collected on a range of sociodemog..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The research was funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant #GNT630517 to Richard P Mattick, Delyse Hutchinson, Steve Allsop, Jake Najman, Elizabeth Elliott, Lucy Burns, Sue Jacobs, Craig Olsson and Anne Bartu, and was financially supported by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), University of New South Wales (UNSW). NDARC and the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), Curtin University of Technology are funded by the Australian Government under the Substance Misuse Prevention and Service Improvements Grants Fund. The authors also acknowledge financial support from Australian Rotary Health, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, and the Financial Markets Foundation for Children (Australia). Richard P. Mattick is financially supported by an NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship Award from the NHMRC, and Delyse Hutchinson is financially supported by an Australian Unity Industry Partner Senior Research Fellowship. Craig Olsson is supported by an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellowship (DORA: DP 130101459). Elizabeth Elliott is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship #1021480.