Table 3. Descriptive data of parents’ emotions and attitudes.

Variables	Mean	Standard deviation	Minimum	Maximum	Z skewness	Z kurtosis
My child is more demanding than most other children	2.28	1.180	1	5	.630	-.649
The schedule of feeding, sleeping, dressing my child is much harder to establish than I expected	2.96	1.335	1	5	.070	-1.272
It seems to me that my child is very sensitive and easily upset	2.40	1.132	1	5	.604	-.397
It seems to me that my child cries more than other children	3.16	1.364	1	5	-.271	-1.110
My child can't do much of what he is expected to know to do	2.56	1.168	1	5	.482	-.532
I feel like a bad parent	4.29	.930	1	5	-1.481	2.390
I am often sad	3.10	1.337	0	5	-.220	-.990
I often lack energy	2.86	1.280	1	5	.152	-1.176
I am not interested in socializing with people as before	3.44	1.281	0	5	-.876	-.069
I often blame myself for the difficulties my child has	3.80	1.297	0	5	-1.011	.267
I often blame my spouse for the difficulties my child has	4.84	3.513	1	5	8.176	71.147
With the birth of my child, I have more difficulties with my spouse than I expected	4.21	1.052	1	5	-1.512	1.864