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The impact of maternal HIV infection on infant to mother attachment

Peterson, Nancy Jean
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057938381

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1994, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of maternal HIV infection on infant to mother attachment security in Kampala, Uganda. 35 HIV-positive mothers and their infants and 25 HIV-negative mothers and their infants were observed twice at home for 2 hours per visit. The Waters Attachment Q-set was used to assess the quality of the infant's attachment to the mother. Potential influences on the attachment relationship, including: SES and family composition; maternal health, adaptive behavior, affect, and depression; child health, affect, and cognitive development; and mother-infant interaction were also examined. There was no difference between infants of HIV-positive mothers and infants of HIV-negative mothers in attachment security. A subsample of mothers who were symptomatic for AIDS were examined separately to determine whether they differed from HIV-positive but asymptomatic mothers. Mothers with AIDS were significantly less able to care for themselves adaptively, were significantly more depressed, expressed significantly less positive affect, and were significantly less able to interact positively with their infants than mothers without AIDS. Infants of mothers with AIDS were significantly less securely attached than infants of mothers without AIDS. The 10 HIV-positive infants were also ex amined separately. HIV-positive infants scored significantly lower on the Bayley Mental Development Index and Psychomotor Development Index, were significantly less affectively expressive, and were significantly less securely attached than HIV-negative infants. A conceptual model of attachment security was developed to test two possible pathways to a secure attachment, one through maternal health and the other through infant health. Only maternal affect provided a substantial contribution to the explained variation in attachment behavior in the present study.
Dennis Drotar (Advisor)
128 p.
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  • Peterson, N. J. (1994). The impact of maternal HIV infection on infant to mother attachment [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057938381

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Peterson, Nancy. The impact of maternal HIV infection on infant to mother attachment. 1994. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057938381.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Peterson, Nancy. "The impact of maternal HIV infection on infant to mother attachment." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057938381

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