Partner support as a mediator of intervention outcome.
Following up on previous work demonstrating that an intervention with at-risk mothers made a positive impact on the quality of mothers' partner support, responsiveness to the needs of the child, the child's expectation of being cared for, and child's response to a brief separation, the present paper examines whether quality of the mother's partner support mediated the impact of the intervention on these outcomes.
Heinicke
C M
CM
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Goorsky
M
M
Moscov
S
S
Dudley
K
K
Gordon
J
J
Guthrie
D
D
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care / Q000523:psychology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011203:Poverty; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D018454:Spouses