Correlates of work productivity and maternal competence after having a baby: the roles of mother-infant bonding and maternal subjective experiences

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of main variables

	M	SD
Mother’s age	32.52	3.61
Child’s age (in months)	14.42	6.24
Parental leave length (in days)	75.70	40.81
Working for necessity/pleasure	4.67	2.88
Experience back at work	3.56	2.72
HWQ	5.86	1.17
PSOC total	3.99	0.69
PSOC satisfaction	3.79	0.87
PSOC efficacy	4.08	0.81
PBQ total	27.40	29.61
PSS total	41.28	9.63
GAPS total	48.25	10.85
ECR-R anxiety	3.61	1.19
ECR-R avoidance	2.44	1.09

Working for necessity/pleasure = “Would you say you work mainly for financial necessity or pleasure?” with 0 = “working as a necessity” and 10 = “working for pleasure”, Experience back at work = “Please rate your experience of being back to work after parental leave”. with 0 = “finding it difficult being back at work” and 10 = ”finding it easy being back at work”, HWQ Total = work productivity total score, PSOC Total = parental sense of competence total score, PSOC Satisfaction = parental sense of competence (satisfaction subscale), PSOC Efficacy = parental sense of competence (efficacy subscale), PBQ Total = parent–child bonding total score, PSS Total = parental stress total score, GAPS Total = parental guilt about parenting total score, ECR-R anxiety = attachment anxiety towards partner score, ECR-R avoidance = attachment avoidance towards partner score

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