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B J Cohler

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PubMed1977

Children at risk: performance of three-year-olds and their mentally ill and well mothers on an interaction task.

Fifteen mothers previously hospitalized for mental illness (psychosis) and 15 well mothers were observed with their 3-year-old children. While mentally ill mothers expressed less positive affect than well mothers, there were no other respects in which the two groups of mothers and their children differed. There were differences in the pattern of intercorrelations among these interaction variables between the two groups, which appear to reflect differences in the degree of flexibility between mothers in the two groups.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Child care attitudes and adaptation to the maternal role among mentally ill and well mothers.

Discharged psychiatric hospital patients who were mothers of young children were compared with a group of well mothers on child rearing attitudes and adaptation to adult social roles. Mentally ill mothers were found to believe less in the importance of developing a reciprocal mother-child relationship or in differentiating between own needs and those of child, and were more likely to deny ambivalent feelings regarding child care. In each group, less adaptive child-care attitudes were related to greater impairment in adapting to other adult roles.

Adaptation, Psychological↗