Structural model of the relationship between maternal attachment and parenting stress: investigation of the mediating role of maternal mindfulness

Maternal attachment is one of the factors that can cause stress in mothers. But the key question is, is there a relationship between maternal attachment and parental stress and the mediating role of maternal anger?

To investigate the relationship between maternal attachment and parenting stress with the mediating role of maternal anesthesia.

The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population consisted of mothers of 3 to 6 year old children who attended kindergartens under the supervision of Welfare of Jiroft from February 95 to June 96. 290 individuals were selected by cluster sampling method. Parents include the Parental Stress Scale-Short Form (Abidin, 1995), the Collins and Reed Adult Attachment Scale (1996), and the five-dimensional self-report questionnaire (Bauer et al., 12006). Data were analyzed using Bootstrap method.

Self-care mediated the relationship between insecure attachment and parenting stress. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between anxiety and avoidance attachment with stress (p<0/0001). In the intermediate model, anxiety attachment had a direct and indirect effect on parental stress (p<0/0001) and avoidant attachment had no direct effect on stress, but indirectly (via mediation) had an effect on stress (p>0/0001).

Maternal anesthesia can reduce maternal attachment and parenting stress.