EPI and IPAT anxiety scale performance in young women as related to breast feeding during infancy.
Performance of female first-year psychology students on the EPI and IPAT anxiety scale were examined in relation to length of breast-feeding during infancy. Ss who never were breast fed scored significantly higher on the IPAT scale and the EPI neuroticism dimension than breast-fed Ss irrespective of duration. The results were discussed in the light of future investigations of mother-child relationships.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008347:Manifest Anxiety Scale; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013997:Time Factors