Prenatal maternal attachment to the child, MAAS Test - the question form
Questions: 19 · 4 minutes
1. Over the past two weeks, I have thought about or been preoccupied with thoughts about the baby inside me:
Almost all the time
Very often
Often
From time to time
Not at all
2. Over the past two weeks, when I talked about or thought about the baby developing inside me, the feelings I experienced were:
Very weak or absent
Quite weak
Moderate
Quite strong
Very strong
3. Over the past two weeks, my feelings about my baby have been:
Very positive
Mostly positive
Mixed (a mixture of positive and negative feelings)
Mostly negative
Very negative
4. Over the past two weeks, I have wanted to read or get information about my growing baby. This desire has been:
Very weak or not present at all
Quite weak
Neither strong nor weak
Moderately strong
Very strong
5. Over the past two weeks, I have tried to imagine what my growing baby really looks like now:
Almost all the time
Very often
Often
From time to time
I have not tried at all
6. Over the past two weeks, I have thought about my developing baby mostly as:
A real person with their own characteristics and individuality
A baby, like other babies
A human being
A living being
A being that does not yet really exist
7. Over the past two weeks, I felt that my unborn baby's well-being depended on me:
Completely
Very much
Moderately
A little
Not at all
8. Over the past two weeks, I have noticed that I talk to my baby when I am alone:
No, I do not talk at all
From time to time
Often
Very often
Almost all the time when I am alone
9. Over the past two weeks, when I thought (or talked) about my baby, my thoughts:
Were always tender and loving
Were mainly tender and loving
Were a mixture of tenderness and irritation
Contained a little irritation
Contained a great deal of irritation
10. My mental image of what my baby looks like inside me is:
Very clear
Fairly clear
Fairly vague
Very vague
I do not have any image at all
11. Over the past 2 weeks, when I thought about my baby, I felt:
Very sad
Moderately sad
A mixture of happiness and sadness
Moderately happy
Very happy
12. Some women are at times so irritated with the baby inside them that they feel they want to hurt the baby or punish the baby:
I could not imagine ever feeling this way
I can imagine that I might sometimes feel this way, but I have never actually felt this way
I have felt this way once
I feel this way from time to time
I often feel this way
13. Over the past two weeks, I have felt:
A strong emotional distance (coldness/reserve) toward my baby
A moderate emotional distance toward my baby
A slight emotional closeness to my baby
Emotional closeness to my baby
A very strong emotional closeness to my baby
14. Over the past two weeks, I have paid attention to what I eat to make sure my baby is getting good nutrition:
Not at all
Once or twice when I ate
From time to time when I eat
Quite often when I eat
Every time I eat
15. When I first see my baby after birth, I will feel:
A strong attachment
Mostly attachment
There may be something I dislike about my baby's appearance
I will dislike quite a lot about my baby's appearance
I will mostly not like my baby
16. When my baby is born, I would like to hold my baby:
Immediately
After the baby has been wrapped in a blanket
After the baby has been washed
After a few hours, once everything has settled down
The next day
17. Over the past two weeks, I have had dreams about my pregnancy or the baby:
Not at all
From time to time
Often
Very often
Almost every night
18. Over the past two weeks, I have noticed myself feeling or rubbing the outside of my abdomen—where the baby is:
Many times a day
At least once a day
From time to time
Only once
Never
19. If the pregnancy ended at this time (due to miscarriage or another accidental event) without any pain or harm to me, I think I would feel:
Very sad
Moderately sad
Neutral (i.e., neither sad nor pleased, or mixed feelings)
Pleased
Very pleased