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The Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire: a validation

Brockington, I. F., Fraser, C., Wilson, D.·2006·Archives of Women's Mental Health

DOI 10.1007/s00737-006-0132-1

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This is a validation of a self-rating questionnaire designed to detect disorders of the mother-infant relationship. 125 subjects filled in the questionnaire, and were also interviewed using the 5(th) Edition of the Birmingham Interview for Maternal Mental Health. On the basis of these interviews and the case records, we made consensus diagnoses of various forms and degrees of mother infant relationship disorder, according to criteria published in this paper. We calculated specificity, sensitivity and positive predictive value of the four scale scores generated by the questionnaire. Scale 1 (a general factor) had a sensitivity of 0.82 for all mother-infant relationship disorders. Scale 2 (rejection and pathological anger) had a sensitivity of 0.88 for rejection of the infant, but only 0.67 for severe anger. The performance of scale 3 (infant-focused anxiety) was unsatisfactory. Scale 4 (incipient abuse) selected only a few mothers, but was of some value in identifying those at high risk of child abuse. Revision of the thresholds can improve sensitivity, especially of scale 2, where a cut-off point of 12 = normal, 13 = high better identifies mothers with threatened rejection. These new cut-off points would need validation in another sample.

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Authors: Brockington, I. F., Fraser, C., & Wilson, D.
Affiliations: University of Birmingham (GB)
Cardiff University (GB)
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (CA)
ORCID: Brockington, I. F.
Venue: Archives of Women's Mental Health
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2006-05-04
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
Pages: 233-242
ISSN: 1434-1816 (ISSN-L)
1435-1102
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-006-0132-1
OpenAlex: W2122318173
Cited by: 568
References: 11
Citations by year: 2026: 56 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 59 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 4.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Archives of Women s Mental Health (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords: Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire, mother-infant relationship, postpartum depression, maternal rejection, maternal anger, child abuse risk, questionnaire validation, sensitivity and specificity, cut-off values
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, England, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Mother-Child Relations, New Zealand, Object Attachment, Surveys and Questionnaires, Postpartum Period

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