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Correlates of Successful Breastfeeding
Author(s) -
Rentschler Dorothy Devine
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1991.tb00660.x
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , psychology , sample (material) , developmental psychology , medicine , demography , pediatrics , sociology , physics , thermodynamics
This study of factors related to success in breastfeeding used achievement motivation and information theories to develop the hypotheses. The sample (N = 150) were married, primigravidas, planning to breastfed. Breastfeeding for at least six weeks was the criterion for success. Pregnant women's achievement motivation and level of information about breastfeeding were found to be positively related to success in breastfeeding.