Psychobehavioral outcomes
’s difficulties
At one year postpartum, mothers completed two questionnaires assessing psychobehavioral outcomes of their offspring. Firstly, the Difficult Child subscale of the Parenting Stress Index short-form assessed the mother’s perception of offspring’s difficulties with self-regulation with 12 items on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 ‘totally agree’ to 5 ‘totally disagree’ (