Personality Factors in Mothers of Excessively Crying (Colicky) Infants

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Subjects were 20 mothers of colicky infants (experimental group) and 20 controls, mothers of normal, well-adjusted infants. Dimensions of personality such as role acceptance, felt adequacy, and motherliness were explored by means of a questionnaire, a Q sample of relevant attitudes, and 3 unstructured tasks. The experimental group differed from the controls with respect to the 5 dimensions studied. Feelings associated with these dimensions appear to affect the quality of the mother-infant interaction. The evidence suggests that infantile colic may be associated in part with the relative potency and direction of such feelings. 30 references.

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