From: The Birth Memories and Recall Questionnaire (BirthMARQ): development and evaluation
BirthMARQ components (% variance) | Component loading | h 2 | Cronbach's alphaa |
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Emotional Memory (12.94) | Â | Â | 0.81 |
My emotions at the time were extremely positive* | 0.85 | 0.74 | Â |
My emotions at the time were extremely negative | 0.81 | 0.68 | Â |
I experienced mixed positive and negative emotions at the time | 0.72 | 0.54 | Â |
While recalling the birth now, my emotions are extremely positive* | 0.69 | 0.58 | Â |
While recalling the birth now, I am experiencing mixed positive and negative emotions | 0.66 | 0.47 | Â |
Reliving (10.98) | Â | Â | 0.80 |
While remembering the birth now, I relive visual impressions I had during the birth | 0.80 | 0.68 | Â |
While remembering the birth now, I relive the bodily sensations I had during the birth | 0.74 | 0.63 | Â |
While remembering the birth now, I feel as though I am reliving it and it is happening now, not in the past | 0.73 | 0.63 | Â |
While remembering the birth now, I relive the sound(s) I heard during the birth | 0.71 | 0.68 | Â |
Centrality of memory (10.83) | Â | Â | 0.80 |
The experience of birth has coloured the way I think and feel about other experiences | 0.82 | 0.72 | Â |
The experience of birth has become central to the way I understand myself and the world | 0.77 | 0.68 | Â |
The experience of birth was a turning point in my life | 0.74 | 0.65 | Â |
I often think about the effects the experience of birth will have on my future | 0.59 | 0.58 | Â |
Sensory Memory (10.47) | Â | Â | 0.74 |
As I recall the birth, I can remember smells | 0.82 | 0.71 | Â |
As I recall the birth, I can remember tastes | 0.77 | 0.63 | Â |
As I recall the birth, I can remember sounds | 0.65 | 0.51 | Â |
As I recall the birth, I can remember touch | 0.61 | 0.47 | Â |
Recall (9.88) | Â | Â | 0.84 |
My memory for the birth (or parts of the memory) comes to me 'out of the blue' without me trying to think about it | 0.84 | 0.78 | Â |
Things that happen now can unexpectedly bring up memories of the birth (or parts of memories) | 0.77 | 0.74 | Â |
Since the birth, I have thought about it b | 0.74 | 0.64 | Â |
Coherence (9.00) | Â | Â | 0.84 |
My memory for the birth comes to me as a logical, coherent series of events with no major gaps | 0.87 | 0.81 | Â |
My memory for the birth is fragmented, i.e. it comes in bits and pieces with bits missing* | 0.85 | 0.75 | Â |
The images in my memory for the birth come to me like a continuous film or video recording b | 0.60 | 0.46 | Â |