Validation of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale for Infant Maltreatment by Mothers at One Month Postpartum: An Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children's Study

JMA J. 2022 Jul 15;5(3):366-369. doi: 10.31662/jmaj.2022-0041. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Toshie Nishigori¹, Taku Obara^{1

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3}, Hirohito Metoki⁴, Kasumi Sakurai², Miyuki Mori⁵, Taeko Suzuki⁵, Mami Ishikuro³, Nozomi Tatsuta², Masatoshi Saito⁶, Junichi Sugawara^{2

3}, Takahiro Arima², Kunihiko Nakai^{2

7}, Shinichi Kuriyama^{2

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8}, Nobuo Yaegashi^{2

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6}, Hidekazu Nishigori⁵

¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.
² Environment and Genome Research Center, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan.
³ Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan.
⁴ Division of Public Health, Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Miyagi, Japan.
⁵ Department of Development and Environmental Medicine, Fukushima Medical Center for Children and Women, Fukushima Medical University Graduate School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan.
⁷ Department of Sport and Health Science, Tokai Gakuen University, Aichi, Japan.
⁸ International Research Institute for Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan.

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Keywords: Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale; adjunct study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study; anger; infant maltreatment; rejection.