Associations of postpartum mother-infant bonding with maternal childhood maltreatment and postpartum mental health: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Bivariate correlations with postpartum MIB impairment

	PBQ-16
Sociodemographic control variables
Age	.056
Education (1: ≥ 12 years of school education, 0: < 12 years of school education)	.142**
Marital status (1: married or in a partnership, 0: single, divorced or widowed)	.073*
Parity (1: primiparous, 0: multiparous)	.048
Maternal childhood maltreatment
CTQ: sexual abuse	.115**
CTQ: physical abuse	.069
CTQ: emotional abuse	.162**
CTQ: physical neglect	.037
CTQ: emotional neglect	.212**
Maternal postpartum mental health
BDI-II	.473**
SCL-90-R: anxiety	.289**

Pearson, respectively, point-biserial correlation coefficient with significance level, *p < .05; **p < .01

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