Korean Parent-Child Health Journal (부모자녀건강학회지)
- Volume 4 Issue 2
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- Pages.1-15
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- 2002
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- 1229-263X(pISSN)
The Study of the Attachment-oriented Caretaking Behaviors among the young infant's mothers
모유수유아 선발대회 참가 영아모의 애착 지향적 양육행동에 관한 연구
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics and influencing factors of the attachment-oriented caretaking behaviors among the mothers with infants. The total number of 204 mothers participated in this survey as subjects. They all were breast-feeding mothers who had their infants joining in the semi-final round of a healthy breast-feeding infant contest. The data were collected from July 14, 1999 to May 19, 2000. And the data were analyzed by SPSSWIN 10.0 version. The result of this study was as follows ; 1. The mean ages of the subjects were 29.5 and 95.6 percents of them were no-job housewives. 57.8% of them were normal delivery. And the mean months of the infants were 6.2 and the male infants were 57.4%. The first born babies were 62.3%. 2. The mothers are affirmative enough with their attachment-oriented caretaking behaviors (the total mean was