Abstract
The purpose of the study was to identify what impact, if any, maternal perception and anxiety had on an infant at the time of feeding. The framework for testing the relationship was Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory of psychiatry, as it related specifically to mother-infant tenderness. For the study, tenderness was restricted to a reciprocal process in which the infant had a physiochemical need for milk and the mother a complimentary need to satisfy the infant. Of importance to Sullivan was the fact that an infant had to depend on the intervention of others for survival and therefore manifested a need for milk recurrently. Thus, to ensure satisfaction of the physiochemical need, the infant and mother had to cooperate with one another. Maternal anxiety, however, according to Sullivan's premise, could disrupt the mother-infant cooperation by inhibiting maternal perception of infant needs, as well as by inducing anxiety in the infant.
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Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Other
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Mother-Child Relationship, Maternal Anxiety, Infant Care
Advisor
Carol J. Dashiff
Degree
Doctoral-Other
Degree Grantor
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Degree Year
1982
Recommended Citation
Blank, Deidre Marion, "The tenderness process in mother-infant couples: The relationship of maternal perception and anxiety to infant satiety and anxiety" (2019). Dissertations. 1059.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1059
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Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-03-01
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 8311147; ProQuest document ID: 303180676. The author still retains copyright.