**4. Conclusions**

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the different child disorders [46].

Maternal pathology leads to low level of oxygen during pregnancy and followed

It is obvious that not only perinatal pathology contributes to the health of the child at an early age [46]. Moreover, the success of child care during the first years of life is determined by psychological features of the mother. And that is why we will address the assessment of the influence of emotional reaction of the mother to the child's health status. Univariate analysis of variance is carried out to evaluate the influence of independent variable "the degree of the mother's attachment to the child" [47, 48] on the future possible cancelation of the child's diagnosis by a local doctor. The significant influence is obtained for one scale of the questionnaire only. Based on the results of the research, the degree of acceptance of the child (the acceptance-rejection scale) by the mothers of first-year-old children exerts influence on the probability of cancelation of the child's diagnosis made by

**3.3 The influence of psychological features of the mother on the child's health**

a local pediatrician (F = 6.829, p < 0.003) during the first 2 years.

There are no differences between the mothers of first- and second-year-old children according to the degrees of attachment. About 54% of the mothers of each group are characterized by low degree of attachment; 44 and 42% correspondingly are characterized by mean degree. Only 2 and 4% of the mothers of first- and second-year-old children have high degree of attachment. No mothers with maternal deprivation are identified. Positive prognosis in terms of health of the first-yearold children depends upon the degree of acceptance of the child by the mother: the higher the value on the acceptance-rejection scale is, the better the child's health is. Our data point to the absence of differences in the features of emotional intelligence of the mothers of the first- and second-year-old children. The similarity of emotional intelligence of the mothers is explained by that they represent the same social

The research results show that the majority of the mothers are characterized by low level of the capability to understand and control their own and other emotions as well as of interpersonal, intrapersonal and general emotional intelligence. There are no mothers with high level of emotional intelligence. Probably, that is why we do not find any association between emotional intelligence of the mother and the probability of cancelation of the child's diagnosis either in variance or correlation analysis. At the same time, in a sample of the mothers of second-year-old children, univariate analysis of variance reveals the influence of independent variables "understanding of other emotions" and "general emotional intelligence" on dependent variable "degree of attachment" (F = 2.115, p = 0.051; F = 2.618, p = 0.029). The better the understanding of other emotions and general emotional intelligence are, the higher the degree of attachment is. We have detected the influence of independent variables "understanding of other emotions", "control of expression" and "control of one's own and other emotions" on dependent variable "sensitivityinsensitivity" (correspondingly, F = 3.741, p = 0.002; F = 3.714, p = 0.003; F = 2.747, p = 0.015). The higher the values of the structural components of emotional intelligence are, the more efficient the mother is. That is, she respects for the child's

Our data refer only to those women who led predominantly healthy lives before pregnancy and actively cared for the child immediately after his (her) birth. It is consistent with a large number of studies showing the dependence of the health level of the child at birth on both the mother's health before pregnancy and her pathology that arose during pregnancy and during childbirth [1, 7, 18, 19]. Our data show that the acceptance of the child is the main psychological factor that

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independency to a greater extent.

Almost all the children at birth have one or the other diagnosis (96% of the firstand second-year-old children). But by the end of the first year of life, diagnoses are canceled in 40% of the children by a local doctor, and during the second year of life—in 60% of the children. The most widespread diagnose of the child at birth is perinatal encephalopathy and syndrome of motor disorders.

Only 8% of the first-year-old children's mothers and 14% of the second-year-old children's mothers are almost healthy. The less factors of perinatal pathology there are in the mother, the more positive the prognosis with regard to the child's health within the first 2 years of living is. The association of morbidity of the children with the factors of perinatal pathology of the mother is the most pronounced during the first year of living. During the second year of life, the boys' health is less dependent on those factors than that of the girls.

There are differences between the mothers of first- and second-year-old children according to the degrees of attachment. About 54% of the mothers of each group are characterized by low degree of attachment; 44 and 42% correspondingly are characterized by mean degree. Only 2 and 4% of the mothers of the first- and second-year-old children are characterized by high degree of attachment. No mothers with maternal deprivation have been identified. Positive prognosis with regard to the first-year-old children's health depends upon the acceptance of the child by the mother: the higher the value on the scale of acceptance-nonacceptance is, the better the child's health is.

The degree of emotional intelligence of the mother is not associated with the probability of cancelation of the child's diagnosis.

## **Acknowledgements**

The work was supported by the grant of the Russian Fund of the Fundamental Researches# 18-413-480007.

## **Conflict of interest**

We have no any conflict of interest.

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