THE RELATIONSHIP OF DAYDREAMING STYLES TO PERCEPTION OF MATERNAL PARENTING ROLE AND MATERNAL-FETAL ATTACHMENT IN FIRST-TIME EXPECTANT WOMEN DURING THE THIRD TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY.
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.; Psychology, General.
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of daydreaming styles to perception of maternal parenting role and maternal-fetal attachment. Positive-vivid daydreaming, a constructive style of fantasy, was hypothesized to assist in the development of perception of parenting role and maternal-fetal attachment. Guilty-dysphoric and anxious-distractible daydreaming styles were both negatively oriented are described as unproductive, frightening, and bizarre. These patterns were thought to inhibit development of perception of parenting role and maternal-fetal attachment.

The sample consisted of one hundred and fifty first time expectant women in the third trimester of pregnancy. All participants were recruited from Preparation for Childbirth classes held in New York City and Long Island. All participants were in the middle to upper middle socioeconomic level. All participants were married and currently employed.

Results of this study suggest that individually the three major styles of daydreaming are not predictive of perception of parenting role and maternal-fetal attachment in first time expectant women during the third trimester of pregnancy. Lack of support for the hypotheses may have been due to the low reliability of the positive-vivid and anxious-distractible subscales and not to their true covariation with other variables. Further, the guilty-dysphoric daydreaming style was determined to have a curvilinear relationship to perception of parenting in this population.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: B, page: 6134.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1993.

School code: 0146.