The couvade syndrome and side preference in child holding
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 71 (3) , 311-314
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb01289.x
Abstract
ABSTRACT– In a prospective study of expectant couples 20% of the men suffered from the couvade syndrome. About 80% of both women and men hold their newborn infant to the left and 20% to the right, irrespective of handedness. Compared with others, men with the syndrome more frequently developed a right‐side preference in child holding. Right‐holding men more often had sons than daughters. Right‐holders with the couvade syndrome were more often attached to and more closely identified with their mothers than were right‐holding non‐sufferers.Keywords
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