Maternity blues and attachment to children in mothers of full-term normal infants

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-217

  Nagata, M ^a   Nagai, S ^a   Sobajima, H ^a   Ando, T ^a   Nishide, Y ^a   Honjo, S ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attachment; Maternity blues; Postpartum depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; JAPAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 0033955689     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2000.101003209.x     Document Type: Article

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