Explanation Social-Emotional Development of Infants: the role of Family Financial Stress, Father Involvement, and Mother-Infant Attachment
Subject Areas : دلبستگی
Vahidreza pourtaghi
1
,
Razieh Sheikholeslami
2
,
Farhad Khormaee
3
,
Masoud Hosseinchari
4
1 - Educational Psychology Department, Psychology and educational science Faculty, Shiraz University
2 - دانشیار دانشگاه شیراز
3 - Shiraz University. Shiraz. Iran
4 - Shiraz University. Shiraz. Iran
Keywords: family financial stress, father involvement, infant, mother-infant attachment, socio-emotional development,
Abstract :
This study aimed to explain the socio-emotional development of infants based on family financial stress, father involvement, and mother-infant attachment in the form of a causal model. The study participants were 221 mothers living in Tehran who had a one-year-old child, which were selected by random cluster sampling from health centers in District 5 of Tehran. To measure the research variables, the long form of Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI), Maternal Postpartum Attachment Scale, Father Involvement Scale, and Family Financial Stress Scale were used. The results showed the positive effect of mother-infant attachment on the social-emotional development of infants. The father's involvement also had a positive effect on the mother-infant attachment. The results of the bootstrap test indicated the mediating role of mother-infant attachment in the relationship between father involvement and socio-emotional development of infants. this study showed that the father's involvement in caring for the infant and supporting the mother's parenting can improve the mother-infant attachment and thus increase the social-emotional development . this study coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, the severe stress caused by this pandemic may have affected the results related to the role of family financial stress, so further research in this field is necessary.
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