ABSTRACT

The present study aimed to investigate whether a mother’s anxiety, depression, prenatal perception of childbirth, and experience with delivery, assessed from pregnancy to three months postpartum, were associated with her perception of her infant’s negative affectivity (NA). The participant sample was composed of 76 primiparous mothers and their healthy babies (58% boys, 42% girls). During pregnancy, mothers independently filled out the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaires (W-DEQ) version A. One month after giving birth, the mothers filled out the W-DEQ version B. Finally, three months after giving birth, they completed the EPDS, the STAI, and the four Infant Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ-R) scales of NA. Linear regression analyses showed that perinatal FoB, trait anxiety, and depression were associated with a maternal perception of higher infant NA. Studies on perinatal parental health and child outcomes should include assessments of the relation between anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum depression in order to prevent any negative impacts on the temperaments of children.

摘要

本研究旨在调查母亲的焦虑、抑郁、产前对分娩的看法以及从怀孕到产后三个月评估的分娩经历是否与她对婴儿负面情绪的看法有关。情感（NA）。参与者样本由 76 名初产母亲及其健康婴儿组成（58% 男孩，42% 女孩）。怀孕期间，母亲们独立填写了状态-特质焦虑量表（STAI）、爱丁堡产后抑郁量表（EPDS）和维吉玛分娩预期/经历问卷（W-DEQ）A版。分娩后一个月，母亲们填写了 W-DEQ 版本 B。最后，在分娩后三个月，他们完成了 EPDS、STAI 和 NA 的四个婴儿行为问卷 (IBQ-R) 量表。线性回归分析表明，围产期 FoB、特质焦虑和抑郁与母亲对婴儿 NA 的感知较高相关。