Abstract
Several studies have underlined that the quality of parental representations during pregnancy may affect the caregiving system (Foley and Hughes, 2018; Vreeswijk et al, 2015) and consequently the child’s emotional and physiological regulation. However, few studies have focused on the differences between mothers and fathers and how their quality of prenatal parental representations may be associated with the postnatal perception of their child’s temperament. Therefore, the aim of this longitudinal study is to examine whether mother’s and father’s mental representations of herself/himself as a parent, assessed at the seventh month of pregnancy (Time 1), are different and whether the perception of infant temperament at 3 months (Time 2) is different with respect to the prenatal parental representations.
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