BACKGROUND: Although many pregnant women experience fear, worry, or anxiety relating to the upcoming birth, little is known regarding the psychological mechanisms contributing to these experiences.
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BACKGROUND: Although many pregnant women experience fear, worry, or anxiety relating to the upcoming birth, little is known regarding the psychological mechanisms contributing to these experiences.
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- Potential mechanisms in fear of birth: The role of pain catastrophizing and intolerance of uncertainty (2018) · doi
BACKGROUND: Although many pregnant women experience fear, worry, or anxiety relating to the upcoming birth, little is known regarding the psychological mechanisms contributing to these experiences.
Keywords: background pregnant women experience fear worry anxiety relating upcoming birth little known regarding psychological mechanisms - Psychological and psychophysiological considerations regarding the maternal–fetal relationship (2010) · doi
While there is a fairly substantial literature on the development and moderation of psychological features of the maternal-fetal relationship, including the role of ultrasound imaging, relatively little is known about the manner in which maternal psychological functioning influences the fetus.
Keywords: psychological maternal there fairly substantial literature development moderation features fetal relationship including role ultrasound imaging - Maternal responsiveness to young children at three ages: Longitudinal analysis of a multidimensional, modular, and specific parenting construct. (2008) · doi
Maternal responsiveness occupies a theoretically central position in developmental science and possesses meaningful predictive validity over diverse domains of children's development, yet basic psychometric features of maternal responsiveness are still poorly understood.
Keywords: maternal responsiveness occupies theoretically central position developmental science possesses meaningful predictive validity diverse domains children
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