The Mediating Effects of the Depression, Anxiety on the Relationship Between Temperament and Character and Maternal-Fetal Attachment in High-Risk Pregnant Women
- Author:
Ho Young JAE
1
;
In Sung CHUNG
;
Sung Won JUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. swon12@daum.net
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
High-risk pregnancy;
Temperament and character;
Depression;
Anxiety;
Attachment;
Mediating effects
- MeSH:
Anxiety;
Depression;
Female;
Humans;
Mass Screening;
Negotiating;
Pregnancy, High-Risk;
Pregnant Women;
Reward;
Temperament
- From:
Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Therapies in Psychiatry
2019;25(2):127-137
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to investigate the correlations of the temperament and character, depression, anxiety, and maternal-fetal attachment and the mediating effects of the depression, anxiety on the relationship between temperament and character and maternal-fetal attachment.METHODS: A hundred and eleven high-risk pregnant women were recruited in this study. All subjects were administered a sociodemographic and obstetric questionnaire, Temperament and Character Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II, State Trait Anxiety Inventory-State, and Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale.RESULTS: The results of this study were as follows. Higher scores on the reward dependence, persistence, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence scale were associated with higher scores on maternal-fetal attachment scale. Higher scores on the harm avoidance scale and lower scores on the self-directedness scale were associated with higher depression scores. Higher scores on the harm avoidance scale and lower scores on the persistence, self-directedness, and cooperativeness scale were associated with higher anxiety scores. Higher anxiety scores were associated with higher scores on maternal-fetal attachment scale. The anxiety was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between persistence and the maternal-fetal attachment. It was also found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between cooperativeness and the maternal-fetal attachment.CONCLUSION: In this study, we found that the anxiety has partial mediating effect on the relationship between temperament and character and maternal-fetal attachment. Based on these findings, it is suggested that examining temperament and character and screening vulnerable pregnant women can help to prevent negative results for high-risk pregnant women.
