Analysis of moderator mediator binary variables in psychological researches: a study of the effect of mother attachment patterns and maternal depression on infant's sleeps disorders

Abstract EN

This study explores the Mediation models which focus on the methods of Bootstrapping and process.

it also examines the effect of mother's attachment patterns and maternal depression, as independent variables, on infant's sleep disorders, as a dependent one, through the mediator variable represented in the infant attachment.

the sample consists of 86 dyads (mother and infant) infant age between 10 and 36 months.

infant scale attachments Q-sort, adult attachment scale and the shortened beck depression inventory (SBDI) have been applied.

the results have shown that infant attachment does not mediate the relation between mother attachment and infants sleep disorders (either partial mediation or complete mediation), on the one hand, and the relation between maternal depression and infant sleep disorders on the other hand.