Volume 16, Issue 3
A STUDY OF EVOLVING REPRESENTATIONS AND MATERNAL ATTACHMENT IN A GROUP OF CHILEAN FIRST-TIME PREGNANT WOMEN
Abstract
Maternal representations and attachment styles were studied in a group of women on their first pregnancies. They were observed during their pregnancies (between 14 and 34 weeks) and later on, their babies between 3 and 6 months after born. 23 pregnant women, between 19 and 32 years old participated, being their attachment style evaluated through CaMir's questionnaire and their mother representations through the adaptation of the ""R"" interview. The results obtained show significant differences in the evolution of the maternal representations of the selected mothers in some of the evaluated variables in the representations on the baby, themselves and their own mother. Mothers with secure attachment tend to keep the same maternal representations, and the insecure ones, show differential tendencies.
Keywords
Maternal representations, maternal attachment, first pregnancy and motherhood