Maternal attitude towards a young child in connection with the personal characteristics of the mother and her experience of child-parent relations
https://doi.org/10.24884/2219-8245-2025-17-4-52-58
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study of the mother's attitude towards a young child in connection with the personal characteristics and experience of the woman's own parent-child relationships. The study involved 40 women, the average age of the mother was 34.5 years, the average age of the child was 26.5 months. The following were used: The Postnatal Maternal Attachment Scale (J. Condon, 1998), the Child-Parent Interaction Questionnaire (CPIQ) (E. I. Zakharova, 1997), the Mother Relationship Test (MRT) (V. O. Anikina, M. E. Bloch, S. S. Savenysheva, I. V. Grandilevskaya, 2021), the BIV Biographical Questionnaire (Bottscher, Jager, Lischer, 1976), and the Childhood Attachment Questionnaire (modified by N. V. Matushevskaya, 2005). Results: In general, the studied group of women is characterized by positive characteristics of maternal attitude and interaction with their young children. At the same time, women demonstrating a non-optimal type of maternal attitude significantly more often assess their experience of parent-child relationships as more unsatisfactory and anxious in comparison with women with an optimal type of maternal attitude. Analysis of relationships showed that the higher the mother's self-doubt, difficulties in assessing and maintaining social contacts, low resistance to stress loads, the lower the indicators of postnatal attachment, which in turn reduces the quality of interaction with the child.
About the Authors
X. I. Latariia
Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Xenia I. Latariia - undergraduate, Division of Child and Parent Mental Health and Early Intervention
199034, Saint Petersburg Makarova Embankment, 6
M. E. Blokh
Saint Petersburg State University; Dr D.O. Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproduction
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mariia E. Blokh - PhD in Medicine, Associate Professor, Division of Child and Parent Mental Health and Early Intervention, Saint Petersburg State University; M.D., psychotherapist, Dr D.O. Ott Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and and Reproduction
199034, Saint Petersburg, Makarova Embankment, 6
Saint Petersburg, Mendeleevskaya line, no. 3
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Latariia X.I., Blokh M.E. Maternal attitude towards a young child in connection with the personal characteristics of the mother and her experience of child-parent relations. Medical Psychology in Russia. 2025;17(4):52-58. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24884/2219-8245-2025-17-4-52-58
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