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Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child

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In this article, a multi-method, longitudinal study involving a community sample (N = 120) of pregnant women aged 18-42 were used to examine disrupted maternal representations of the child as a mechanism for fetal development.
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Data from a multi-method, longitudinal study involving a community sample (N = 120) of pregnant women aged 18–42 were used to examine disrupted maternal representations of the child as a mechanism ...

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The emotional tone of child descriptions during pregnancy is associated with later parenting.

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Reporting structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis results: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a basic set of guidelines and recommendations for information that should be included in any manuscript that has confirmatory factor analysis or structural equation modeling as the primary statistical analysis technique.
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The Relative Performance of Full Information Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Missing Data in Structural Equation Models

TL;DR: A Monte Carlo simulation examined the performance of 4 missing data methods in structural equation models and found that full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimation was superior across all conditions of the design.
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Working With Missing Values

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of missing values are illustrated for a linear model, and a series of recommendations are provided for missing values can produce biased estimates, distorted statistical power, and invalid conclusions.
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Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Problems of Impaired Infant-Mother Relationships

TL;DR: In every nursery there are ghosts as mentioned in this paper, the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents, the uninvited guests at the christening, who are banished from the nursery and return to their subterranean dwelling place.
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Predicting rejection of her infant from mother's representation of her own experience: Implications for the abused-abusing intergenerational cycle

TL;DR: Recent studies of young abused children which show the development of similar behavioral characteristics as early as 1-3 years of age are reviewed, suggesting a continuum of psychological process from the experience of "normal" rejection to theExperience of actual abuse by the parent.
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