Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of emotional attachment to the child presented by women with a high-risk pregnancy and those after delivery and the analysis of variance estimating the influence of depression on the level of emotional attachment to the child in the studied groups.
| Components of emotional attachment to the child | Mild depression | Severe depression | Group | Depression | Group* depression | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After delivery | High-risk pregnancy | After delivery | High-risk pregnancy | ||||||||||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F (1;132) | p | Eta2 | F (1;132) | P | Eta2 | F (1;132) | P | Eta2 | |
| Parental role taking | 17.06 | 3.232 | 17.53 | 2.842 | 15.82 | 3.127 | 15.9 | 3.735 | .237 | .627 | .002 | 6.559* | .012 | .048 | .118 | .732 | .001 |
| Differentiation of self from child | 17.13 | 2.282 | 16.62 | 2.764 | 16.5 | 2.14 | 15.79 | 3.2 | 1.800 | .182 | .014 | 2.566 | .112 | .020 | .049 | .826 | .000 |
| Interaction with the child | 19.16 | 3.293 | 18.24 | 2.764 | 19.08 | 2.981 | 17.31 | 3.846 | 5.771* | .018 | .043 | .801 | .372 | .006 | .573 | .450 | .004 |
| Attributing characteristics to the child | 23.16 | 3.936 | 21.24 | 4.71 | 21.76 | 4.258 | 20.48 | 5.173 | 4.135* | .044 | .031 | 1.857 | .175 | .014 | .166 | .685 | .001 |
| Giving of self to the child | 20.66 | 2.404 | 21.97 | 2.022 | 19.24 | 3.208 | 20.38 | 2.678 | 7.156* | .008 | .053 | 10.746* | .001 | .077 | .035 | .852 | .000 |
| Global attachment score | 97.16 | 11.45 | 95.59 | 10.689 | 92.39 | 10.777 | 89.86 | 14.913 | .973 | .326 | .007 | 6.363* | .013 | .047 | .054 | .817 | .000 |
*
p<0.05.