The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 68-72 , January 2008

The Impact of Maternal Negative Affectivity and General Self-Efficacy on Breastfeeding: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

  • Eivind Ystrom, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Eivind Ystrom, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Mental Health, Postbox 4404, Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway.
    • ,
  • Susan Niegel, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Margarete E. Vollrath, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
    • Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Received 28 November 2006 ,Revised 27 April 2007 ,Accepted 5 June 2007.

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 Supported by the Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation and the Norwegian Health Association. Neither the Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation nor the Norwegian Health Association had any role in the design of the study, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of the data, writing of the report, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Eivind Ystrom wrote the first draft of the manuscript. No honorarium, grant, or payment was given to anyone to produce this manuscript.

PII: S0022-3476(07)00563-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.06.005

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 68-72 , January 2008

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