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maternal | American Dictionary

maternal
adjective
us/məˈtɜr·nəl/
behaving or feeling as a mother does toward her child:
maternal instincts
Maternal also means related by way of the mother:
Alice’s maternal grandmother (= her mother’s mother) will be 90 next month.

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1999!, we examined maternal and paternal parenting separately and expected stronger relations for maternal socialization.
However, it is important to remember that maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy has other consequences in addition to prenatal nicotine exposure.
Most of the studies examining caregiving have focused on maternal caregiving and have used retrospective ratings.
First, it was notable that we failed to find an association between maternal attachment status and infant attachment security.
Two observers coded maternal and child behaviors on a variety of 7-point scales.
Moreover, these deficits are operative irrespective of maternal depression.
While the primary independent variable in this study was prenatal stress, all of the subjects were peer reared to avoid differential maternal treatment.
A total of 33 maternal and child behaviors were rated by independent observers on 5- and 9-point scales.
Here, we examine the potential moderating effects of security of attachment and maternal depressive symptoms on child depression.
Distributions for maternal and paternal anger had modal values of zero, with significant positive skewness and kurtosis for paternal anger.
Separate direct discriminant function analyses were performed using maternal or paternal variables as predictors of membership in the two groups.
In this study, we examined variations in security of attachment behavior, maternal depression symptoms, and economic resources.
A multiple regression analysis revealed that security of attachment, maternal depressive symptomatology, and economic risk accounted for 47% of the variability in children's depression scores.
Even today, maternal mortality ranges from 10-2 5 %12'33'34 with seventenths of deaths occurring between the first month of the puerperium.
Another factor that has consistently been associated with maternal and child well-being is women's role satisfaction.
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