title: Maternal identity and role attainment: long-term relations to children's development.
abstract: Mother-infant pairs were assessed during postpartum for maternal role and identity and a variety of infant and sociodemographic characteristics. When children were school age (8 to 10 years), 77 of the original 124 mothers returned a mail survey that assessed children's social competence and behavioral problems. After controlling for socioeconomic status, neither perceived nor demonstrated role attainment predicted child outcomes. Only a subset of the maternal identity indicators predicted children's social competence and behavior problems at 9 years, and these relationships were few and modest in magnitude. Overall, little support was found for the long-term predictive power of maternal role indicators measured during postpartum.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin.
authors.forename: L O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012380:Role