Perceptions of the availability of social support were assumed to mediate the association
between the future mother's perceptions of early relationships and positive postpartum …

In this chapter the authors focus on relationships between teenage mothers and their infants
and interventions designed to support those relationships. Although infant mental health …

This study investigated the influence of fathers on early triadic family interactions including
transgenerational, representational, and interactional dimensions. A prospective …

Abstract review the most recent research relating family context and infant socioemotional
development/focus on emotional development because of its centrality to infant mental …

Background Social support theory suggests that parental social support may influence the
nature of early parenting behaviours and specifically the mother-infant relationship. This …

This study examined associations among personality, mood, stress, and social support
during the transition to motherhood and quality of maternal behavior at 3 months …

The parent‐child relationship exerts a powerful influence upon child behavior. Thus, it has
been suggested that psychiatric diagnoses of infants and young children should include a …

Abstract Bowlby (1969/1982, 1973, 1980) has proposed that internal working models of self
and other are psychic structures that guide an individual's subjective experience of and …

A considerable body of research supports the general statement that “couples who before
the birth of their first child are characterized by positive mutuality, partner autonomy, and the …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate to what extent teenage mothers are able to predict their postnatal
support networks in the antenatal period, and the extent to which support correlates with …