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Archived at the Flinders Academic Commons: http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/ © Copyright John T Condon 2015This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 AU(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.auArchived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.auCitation: Condon, J. (2015). Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale [Measurement instrument]. Retrieved from  http://hdl.handle.net/2328/35292 The following references relate to this questionnaire:Condon, J. (1993). The assessment of antenatal emotional attachment: development of a questionnaire instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 66(2), 167-183.Condon, J. & Corkindale, C. (1997). The correlates of antenatal attachment in pregnant women. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 70(4), 359-372. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia  MATERNAL ANTENATAL ATTACHMENT SCALE   These questions are about your thoughts and feelings about the developing baby. Please tick one box only in answer to each question.   1) Over the past two weeks I have thought about, or been preoccupied with the baby inside me:    Almost all the time    Very frequently    Frequently    Occasionally    Not at all   2) Over the past two weeks when I have spoken about, or thought about the  baby inside me I got emotional feelings which were:    Very weak or non-existent    Fairly weak    In between strong and weak    Fairly strong    Very strong   3) Over the past two weeks my feelings about the baby inside me have been:    Very positive    Mainly positive    Mixed positive and negative    Mainly negative    Very negative  Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 4) Over the past two weeks I have had the desire to read about or get information about the developing baby.  This desire is:    Very weak or non-existent    Fairly weak    Neither strong nor weak    Moderately strong    Very strong   5) Over the past two weeks I have been trying to picture in my mind what the developing baby actually looks like in my womb:    Almost all the time    Very frequently    Frequently    Occasionally    Not at all     6) Over the past two weeks I think of the developing baby mostly as:    A real little person with special characteristics    A baby like any other baby    A human being    A living thing    A thing not yet really alive         Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 7. Over the past two weeks I have felt that the baby inside me is dependent on me for its well-being:    Totally    A great deal    Moderately    Slightly    Not at all    8) Over the past two weeks I have found myself talking to my baby when I am alone               Not at all    Occasionally      Frequently    Very frequently    Almost all the time I am alone  9. Over the past two weeks when I think about (or talk to) my baby inside me, my thoughts:    Are always tender and loving    Are mostly tender and loving    Are a mixture of both tenderness and irritation    Contain a fair bit of irritation    Contain a lot of irritation        Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 10.    The picture in my mind of what the baby at this stage actually looks like inside the womb is:    Very clear    Fairly clear     Fairly vague    Very vague    I have no idea at all   11.   Over the past two weeks when I think about the baby inside me I get feelings which are:    Very sad    Moderately sad     A mixture of happiness and sadness    Moderately happy    Very happy   12.    Some pregnant women sometimes get so irritated by the baby inside them that they feel like they want to hurt it or punish it:    I couldn’t imagine I would ever feel like this    I could imagine I might sometimes feel like this, but I never              actually have    I have felt like this once or twice myself    I have occasionally felt like this myself    I have often felt like this myself        Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 13. Over the past two weeks I have felt:    Very emotionally distant from my baby    Moderately emotionally distant from my baby    Not particularly emotionally close to my baby    Moderately close emotionally to my baby    Very close emotionally to my baby   14.     Over the past two weeks I have taken care with what I eat to make sure the baby              gets a good diet:     Not at all    Once or twice when I ate    Occasionally when I ate      Quite often when I ate    Every time I ate     15.   When I first see my baby after the birth I expect I will feel:    Intense affection    Mostly affection    Dislike about one or two aspects of the baby           Dislike about quite a few aspects of the baby     Mostly dislike       Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 16.    When my baby is born I would like to hold the baby:     Immediately    After it has been wrapped in a blanket    After it has been washed    After a few hours for things to settle down    The next day   17.    Over the past two weeks I have had dreams about the pregnancy or baby:    Not at all    Occasionally    Frequently    Very frequently    Almost every night   18.    Over the past two weeks I have found myself feeling, or rubbing with my hand, the outside of my stomach where the baby is:    A lot of times each day    At least once per day    Occasionally    Once only    Not at all  Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia  19.   If the pregnancy was lost at this time (due to miscarriage or other accidental event) without any pain or injury to myself, I expect I would feel:    Very pleased    Moderately pleased    Neutral (ie neither sad nor pleased; or mixed feelings)    Moderately sad    Very sad    Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian license (CC BY 3.0 AU). © Copyright John T. Condon.  Dept. Psychiatry Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia  Scoring and scales  Quality of attachment  (3) (6) (9) (10) 11 (12) 13 (15) (16) 19  Time spent in attachment mode (or intensity of preoccupation)  (1) 2 4  (5) 8 14 17 (18)  Item 7 does not load on either factor strongly enough for inclusion on subscales. We usually include it in the global attachment score, and it should be reversed.  Items in brackets are reversed scored.  Scoring is 1-5, with 5 high attachment Archived at Flinders University: dspace.flinders.edu.au

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