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Maternal-fetal attachment: Construct examination and development of a new measurement scale.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Maternal-fetal attachment: Construct examination and development of a new measurement scale./
Author:	Hedrick, Laura.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	72 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-06(E).
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1595300
ISBN:	9781321939613

Maternal-fetal attachment: Construct examination and development of a new measurement scale.
Hedrick, Laura.

Maternal-fetal attachment: Construct examination and development of a new measurement scale. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 72 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.

Thesis (M.S.)--Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in studying maternal-fetal attachment (MFA), and MFA has been correlated with several important variables (e.g., parenting behavior and infant attachment). However, there are differing definitions of MFA, and, as a result, widely varying questionnaires have been developed to assess it. Each of these instruments has demonstrated major weaknesses, such as inadequate operational definitions and theoretical rationales, poor reliability or validity, barriers to practical application, and inconsistent results in correlational studies. The purpose of the present study was twofold. The first aim was to examine the latent factors that underlie the existing measures of MFA in order to better understand the potential components of the construct. The second aim was to develop a new measure with greater practical applicability, more thorough and empirically-sound development procedures, and improved reliability and validity relative to existing instruments. All items from extant questionnaires were pooled with novel items based on an interview measure. This bank of 112 items was administered to a diverse sample of 292 women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Exploratory factor analytic (EFA) procedures revealed underlying factors relating to perceived personhood of the fetus or richness of the mother's perceptions of her fetus, affective components, future orientation, focus on the fetus across domains, and caregiving sensitivity. Four different EFA approaches resulted in three viable models for a new measure with interpretable factor structure, acceptable face validity, good internal consistency, and some favorable results in initial concurrent validity analyses. Directions for future research are discussed.

ISBN: 9781321939613Subjects--Topical Terms:

524863
Clinical psychology.

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