Parenting Stress, Maternal Self-Efficacy and Confidence in Caretaking in a Sample of Mothers with Newborns (0-1 Month).

A mother's responses to her newborn and her confidence in the child's caretaking depend on her attachment security, general parental stress, and perceived self-efficacy. However, few studies have analyzed maternal confidence in caretaking and how it is influenced by some mothers' characteristics. We aimed to examine the association between maternal adult attachment and confidence in a child's caretaking and to understand whether this relationship was mediated by parenting stress and maternal self-efficacy.

Difficulties in emotion regulation: The role of repetitive negative thinking and metacognitive beliefs.

Background: Using the Self-Regulatory Executive Function model as a basis, this study explored whether, in both general population and clinical samples, metacognitive beliefs and repetitive negative thinking (i.e., rumination and worry) are associated with higher levels of emotion dysregulation.

Late first trimester circulating microparticle proteins predict the risk of preeclampsia < 35 weeks and suggest phenotypic differences among affected cases.

We hypothesize that first trimester circulating micro particle (CMP) proteins will define preeclampsia risk while identifying clusters of disease subtypes among cases. We performed a nested case-control analysis among women with and without preeclampsia. Cases diagnosed < 34 weeks' gestation were matched to controls.

Analytical Differences in Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Assays.

Background: We compared the rates of intraoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) decline using the Siemens Immulite Turbo PTH and Roche Elecsys short turnaround time PTH assays in 95 consecutive surgical patients to investigate analytical and turnaround time (TAT) differences between the tests performed in the operating room (OR) vs the central clinical chemistry laboratory (CCL).

Methods: Serial blood samples from 95 patients undergoing parathyroidectomy were collected and measured using the 2 immunoassays. Specimens from the first 15 patients were measured simultaneously in the OR and CCL and used for the TAT study.

Attachment, Social Value Orientation, Sensation Seeking, and Bullying in Early Adolescence.

In this study, bullying is examined in light of the "prosocial security hypothesis"- i.e., the hypothesis that insecure attachment, with temperamental dispositions such as sensation seeking, may foster individualistic, competitive value orientations and problem behaviors.