title: Maternal mind-mindedness as a linking mechanism between childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms and parenting stress.
abstract: The researchers of this study have two aims. The first aim is to verify whether posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, evaluated at 87 hours and at 3 months postpartum, are associated with maternal mind-mindedness (MM) and parenting stress, measured at 17 months postpartum. The second aim is to investigate, at 17 months, the predictive effects of PTS symptoms on the dimensions of parenting stress and to explore whether MM mediates these associations. Forty-one mother-infant dyads participated in the study. The results show that at 17 months, hyper-arousal symptoms predicted both MM and parenting stress. MM was a linking mechanism between maternal PTS symptoms and parenting stress.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Psychology, Università Telematica eCampus , Novedrate (Como) , Italy.|b Centro di Ricerca sulle Dinamiche Evolutive ed Educative (C.R.I.d.e.e. ), Psychology Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan , Italy.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Camisasca
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Psychology, Università Telematica eCampus , Novedrate (Como) , Italy.|b Centro di Ricerca sulle Dinamiche Evolutive ed Educative (C.R.I.d.e.e. ), Psychology Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan , Italy.
authors.forename: Rossella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Procaccia
authors.affiliation: b Centro di Ricerca sulle Dinamiche Evolutive ed Educative (C.R.I.d.e.e. ), Psychology Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan , Italy.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miragoli
authors.affiliation: b Centro di Ricerca sulle Dinamiche Evolutive ed Educative (C.R.I.d.e.e. ), Psychology Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan , Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni Giulio
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Valtolina
authors.affiliation: b Centro di Ricerca sulle Dinamiche Evolutive ed Educative (C.R.I.d.e.e. ), Psychology Department, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan , Italy.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Blasio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D036801:Parturition; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*