Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-10-07eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/189462
Natalia Cecon-Stabel, Ibrahim Demirer, Holger Pfaff, Antje Dresen
{"title":"Cancer patients' sense of coherence - psycho-oncological consultations and therapeutic alliance as salutogenic factors.","authors":"Natalia Cecon-Stabel, Ibrahim Demirer, Holger Pfaff, Antje Dresen","doi":"10.5114/hpr/189462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/189462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sense of coherence (SoC), a key concept in the theory of salutogenesis, influences the pathway to promote or maintain health. Utilising psycho-oncological care (PC) can be allocated to the dimension of 'tension management' within this theory. We aimed to evaluate tension management and SoC in the context of PC by analysing whether PC consultations and therapeutic alliance influenced patients' SoC over time.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Patients who received PC were surveyed twice (after 3 and 12 months) about their care experiences, including therapeutic alliance and SoC. Survey data were matched to care documentation data, which contain consultation dates and sociodemographics. Four stepwise regression analyses were conducted with overall SoC and its subscales of meaningfulness, comprehensibility and manageability at T2 as outcome variables. The predictors are therapeutic alliance and the number of consultations (T1).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>One hundred patients filled out all three SoC subscales at T1 and T2 and were treated by a psycho-oncologist. Therapeutic bond predicted the change in overall SoC (β = .34, <i>t</i> = 2.26, <i>p</i> = .026) and manageability (β = .47, <i>t</i> =3.02, <i>p</i> = .003). The number of consultations predicted overall SoC (β = .16, <i>t</i> = 2.05, <i>p</i> = .043), meaningfulness (β = .21, <i>t</i> = 2.51, <i>p</i> = .014) and manageability (β = .17, <i>t</i> = 2.07, <i>p</i> = .041).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results suggest that part of successful tension management in PC is a good therapeutic bond and the number of needs-oriented consultations utilised. These predictors affect SoC subdimensions differently.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"322-336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604166/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/190886
Ilona Poćwierz-Marciniak, Łucja Bieleninik, Johana Benavidez Cruz, Yenny M Beltrán Ardila, Joanna Jassem-Bobowicz, Sonia A Henádez Malaver, Ana M Díaz, Nestor N Muñetones Reina, Leslie I Martínez De la Barrera, Alba J Castro Gaona, Mark Ettenberger
{"title":"Short-term effectiveness of music therapy songwriting for mental health outcomes of at-risk parents in the NICU: a study protocol of an international multicenter mixed-methods trial.","authors":"Ilona Poćwierz-Marciniak, Łucja Bieleninik, Johana Benavidez Cruz, Yenny M Beltrán Ardila, Joanna Jassem-Bobowicz, Sonia A Henádez Malaver, Ana M Díaz, Nestor N Muñetones Reina, Leslie I Martínez De la Barrera, Alba J Castro Gaona, Mark Ettenberger","doi":"10.5114/hpr/190886","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/190886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Preterm birth contributes to adverse mental health outcomes of parents dealing with a premature neonate. The main objective of this study is to determine whether music therapy (MT) songwriting during the infants' stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is superior to standard care in reducing the risk of postpartum depression in high-risk parents of preterm children throughout the hospital treatment. The secondary objectives include assessment of effectiveness of MT in other aspects of mental health (anxiety level, perceived stress, mental wellbeing, coping, resilience). Furthermore, this trial will evaluate the medical and social factors that may be associated with the effects of MT songwriting.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study design is a sequential mixed method study with a dominant status QUAN to qual. The quantitative trial was designed as a parallel, multicenter, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial. The qualitative study is a descriptive phenomenological study that seeks to understand the lived experiences of participants exposed to songwriting. Participants are parents of premature infants hospitalized in NICU (106 families) in 5 hospitals, in Colombia and Poland. Intervention: 3 MT songwriting sessions per week across 3 weeks. Primary outcome: the risk of postnatal depression; secondary outcomes: anxiety level, mental wellbeing, resilience, stress, coping.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study will provide a report on the effectiveness of MT songwriting on mental health in at-risk parents of preterm infants.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 3","pages":"260-274"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11370736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-19eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/187335
Ricardo P Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena
{"title":"Psychological factors and health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia patients.","authors":"Ricardo P Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena","doi":"10.5114/hpr/187335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/187335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Fibromyalgia (FM) has been associated with decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which has been linked to psychological variables such as anxiety, depression, coping, and social support. This study aimed to simultaneously analyse the association of these variables with HRQoL in FM patients and explore their mediating role in the relationship between somatic symptoms and HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A cross-sectional sample of 134 FM patients (97% women) with no other rheumatologic diseases followed in specialized healthcare services completed self-report questionnaires to evaluate pain, fatigue, sleep, anxiety, depression, coping, social support, and HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that FM patients experienced a negative impact on all dimensions of HRQoL, with anxiety primarily affecting the mental dimensions, and depression and social support affecting both physical and mental dimensions. Anxiety, depression, dysfunctional coping, and low social support were independent predictors of HRQoL and mediated the effect of somatic symptoms in the mental component of HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>FM patients experience a negative impact on HRQoL, and anxiety, depression, coping and social support play an important role as independent predictors of this decrease, and as mediators of the effect of somatic symptoms in the mental dimensions of HRQoL. This underscores the importance of considering these psychological variables in the therapeutic approach to FM and suggests the need for interventions targeting anxiety, depression, dysfunctional coping, and low social support to improve HRQoL in FM patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"352-367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604161/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-06-24eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/187800
Alan R King, Sara K Kuhn, Stephanie Brezinski, Michael Jowkar, Kourtney Smith
{"title":"Self-reported health profiles of trauma victims with and without psychiatric histories.","authors":"Alan R King, Sara K Kuhn, Stephanie Brezinski, Michael Jowkar, Kourtney Smith","doi":"10.5114/hpr/187800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/187800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examined associations between self-reported trauma exposure and physical health status after control of variance associated with psychiatric disturbance. Physical and mental health diagnoses were examined among participants with and without histories of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>College (<i>n</i> = 2,320) and national (<i>n</i> = 663) respondents were surveyed to identify trauma histories defined using the primary DSM-5 diagnostic criterion for PTSD. Respondents also identified lifetime diagnoses for a range of medical and psychiatric conditions. They were also asked to provide a self-assessment of their own current physical health status using a ten-point scaling metric.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Support was found for all three hypotheses: (H1) Self-identified trauma was associated with higher prevalence rates for 16 of 18 medical diagnoses; (H2) PTSD diagnoses were associated with higher prevalence rates than trauma alone for 6 of 16 medical conditions; and (H3) Self-reported trauma was associated with higher prevalence rates for 7 of 18 medical conditions among respondents who denied psychiatric histories.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Trauma exposure both with and without co-occurring psychiatric illness was associated with substantially higher rates of self-reported physical illness. Practitioners and researchers should recognize the potential significance of self-identified trauma and the range of potential biosocial implications that may warrant monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"295-307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604165/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-05-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/185302
Urszula Ziętalewicz, Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz
{"title":"Model of quality of life in a group of people with chronic low back pain.","authors":"Urszula Ziętalewicz, Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz","doi":"10.5114/hpr/185302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/185302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the leading causes of a reduction in the quality of life (QoL). Various methods effectively improve patients' performance and coping with their symptoms in the short term. The lack of focus on psychological factors, thus overlooking an important element of the holistic model, may result in the modest long-term improvement. The present study aimed to test the relationships between the variables in Wilson and Cleary's QoL model in a CLBP group and to compare them to a nonpain group.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Data were obtained from 177 people with CLBP and 160 nonpain participants. We conducted a cross-sectional study in which a multi-module self-administered questionnaire examining biological factors, personality traits, personal values, body assessment, symptoms of depression and anxiety, functional status, general perception of health, life satisfaction, received social support, economic support, satisfaction of health care and sociodemographic factors was adopted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multiple regression models were able to explain 48.4% of the variance of QoL in the CLBP group and 30.9% in the nonpain group. Statistically significant predictors in the CLBP model were the severity of anxiety, emotional stability, receiving social support, and general health assessment and emotional stability in the nonpain group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study has enabled an initial exploratory analysis of the Wilson and Cleary model in a CLBP group. The list of factors determining the QoL should be extended to include emotional stability, social and economic support. Further research is needed to explain the relationships between variables in the model.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"337-351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-04-19eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/186231
Paulina Pawlicka, Wiktor Wróbel, Barbara Baranowska, Daria Macewicz, Michał Olech, Caroline J Hollins Martin, Colin R Martin
{"title":"Translation and validation of the Polish-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) and its relationship to the type of delivery and the baby's Apgar score.","authors":"Paulina Pawlicka, Wiktor Wróbel, Barbara Baranowska, Daria Macewicz, Michał Olech, Caroline J Hollins Martin, Colin R Martin","doi":"10.5114/hpr/186231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/186231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Maternal birth experience is being increasingly recognised as a key clinical outcome parameter. The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a short self-report measure designed to assess birth experience. The current investigation sought to translate the BSS-R into Polish and validate this version of the BSS-R (PL-BSS-R).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The BSS-R was translated into Polish by an expert panel using forward and backward translation. A complex within-subjects design with an embedded between-subjects component was used to determine the key psychometric characteristics of the PL-BSS-R. Two hundred ninety-four Polish-speaking women in Poland completed the follow-up component of the study where the PL-BSS-R was administered. The PL-BSS-R measurement properties were examined using confirmatory factor analysis, divergent, convergent validity analysis, internal consistency appraisal and investigation of known-groups discriminant characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The PL-BSS-R was found to have generally very good measurement properties and to be equivalent to the original English-language version across key validity indices. The PL-BBS-R was found to be significantly correlated with neonatal physical health immediately postpartum and differed across delivery modes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The PL-BSS-R is a psychometrically robust measure of birth experience appropriate for clinical and research use within Poland. Important associations were noted between subjective maternal birth experience and objective measures of neonatal physical health, indicating a critically important future research direction.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"369-381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604162/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-02-29eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/182931
Alicja Senejko, Ewa Gurba, Piotr Oleś, Mateusz Marek, Tomasz Franc, Krzysztof Gurba
{"title":"Do relationships with parents determine citizens' reactions to war trauma?","authors":"Alicja Senejko, Ewa Gurba, Piotr Oleś, Mateusz Marek, Tomasz Franc, Krzysztof Gurba","doi":"10.5114/hpr/182931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/182931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The article concerns the psychology of trauma: the intensity of the experienced threats and reactions to the trauma in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), defenses and post-traumatic growth (PTG) in Ukrainian immigrants in Poland. The issues of trauma psychology were studied in connection with the relationships with parents.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The methods used mainly concerned the specifics of experiencing strong threats (trauma) and responding to them (PCL-5 questionnaire, Psycho-Social and Psychic Defenses Questionnaire, Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory), determination of closeness to parents (Scale of Closeness to Biological Parents) and secure and non-secure attachment style (Attachment Style Questionnaire). The subjects were 178 people (including 147 women and 31 men), citizens of Ukraine, who arrived in Poland after the outbreak of war on February 24, 2022, and at the time of the study were living in and around Krakow, Wroclaw, Lublin, or Warsaw. The mean age of the subjects was 38 years (<i>SD</i> = 12.57).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of the study indicate that non-secure attachment styles (anxious-avoidant and anxious-ambivalent), along with frustration of the need for competence and intensity of threats, are predictors of PTSD and non-constructive defenses. In contrast, a secure attachment style, along with frustration of the need for competence and intensity of threats, is a predictor of constructive defenses, while a secure attachment style is a predictor of PTG. Statistical analyses show that closeness to the mother is not significantly associated with any of the explained variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The accumulation of risks associated with war trauma and the necessity to cope with them are strongly associated with the ongoing war. Attachment styles support or hinder the process of adaptation. The absence of closeness to the mother among the predictors in the models tested represents the most intriguing result, to be confirmed in further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"308-321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604164/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-01-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/181511
Paulina Anikiej-Wiczenbach, Maria Kaźmierczak, Stanisław Czerwiński
{"title":"Exploring the key drivers of responsive parenting in mothers and fathers - observed and self-reported responsiveness.","authors":"Paulina Anikiej-Wiczenbach, Maria Kaźmierczak, Stanisław Czerwiński","doi":"10.5114/hpr/181511","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/181511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This article explores parental responsiveness - the ability of a parent to react to a child's needs adequately, promptly, and with tenderness and synchrony. Parental responsiveness can be measured using observational and self-report scales. The purpose of this study was to explore whether individual differences in empathy and attachment in mothers and fathers and their satisfaction with their relationship are predictors of parental responsiveness toward infants. Moreover, self-report and observational measures of parental responsiveness were compared.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A total of 110 triads (mother, father, and child aged 6-10 months) took part in the free play procedure and parents' behaviors towards their children were assessed using the Ainsworth Sensitivity Scale. Moreover, they filled out a set of questionnaires measuring parental self-reported responsiveness, empathy, experiences in close relationships and romantic relationship satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher empathic concern was connected with higher responsiveness and this was seen in both individual and partner measures. At the individual level, measures of responsiveness (self-report and observational) were not congruent and probably depended on other variables. In couples, there were positive correlations in three aspects of their family functioning: observed and self-reported parental responsiveness as well as relationship satisfaction.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study revealed differences between self-reported and observational measures of parental responsiveness, indicating that their results may not always be congruent and could depend on other variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 1","pages":"39-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10900979/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139997759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a father: a qualitative study on the journey to fatherhood","authors":"Václav Škvařil, Pavla Presslerová","doi":"10.5114/hpr/176082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/176082","url":null,"abstract":"The transition to fatherhood represents one of the most significant changes in a man’s life and brings many challenges. Despite the great importance of this period, empirical data on it are not abundant, with only a small amount of psychologi-cal research on fatherhood available in the Czech Republic; this topic is also rather marginalized abroad. This qualitative study aims to explore men’s unique experiences with the process of becoming a father and to understand how paternal iden-tity is shaped.Four men who had recently become fathers participated in the research. A semi-structured interview was conducted with each of them.Using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach, an in-depth analysis of the data identified five signifi-cant categories that emerge during the transition to fatherhood: responsibility and commitment to the child, father identity formation, fatherhood and motherhood, changes in the partner relationship and coping with the father role.The research suggests that the process of becoming a father is a long-term dynamic process, in which father identity is shaped and consolidated through a variety of situations and experiences. Within this process, paternal identity is also shaped through repeated comparisons and definitions of the role of the mother. Process of becoming a father involves de-velopmental, identity, personality, partnership and family aspects.","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"54 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139388312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafał Gerymski, Joanna Dymecka, Adrianna Iszczuk, M. Bidzan
{"title":"Perceived stress and life satisfaction in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of fear of childbirth and self-esteem","authors":"Rafał Gerymski, Joanna Dymecka, Adrianna Iszczuk, M. Bidzan","doi":"10.5114/hpr/174380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/174380","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the functioning and well-being of pregnant women. Negative feelings during pregnancy and the difficult pandemic situation may be the reason behind the perceived fear of childbirth, which can nega-tively affect the pregnant women’s life satisfaction. On the other hand, some protective factors, such as self-esteem, might mediate the relationship between perceived stress and well-being in pregnant women.Our study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived stress, fear of childbirth, self-esteem and life satisfaction. A total of 262 Polish pregnant women participated in this study. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Fear of Childbirth Scale (KLP II), Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) were used in the study.The results showed that perceived stress, fear of childbirth and self-esteem acted as significant predictors of life satisfaction in the tested group of pregnant women. Additionally, fear of childbirth and self-esteem played a mediational role in the relationship between perceived stress and life satisfaction.According to Diener’s concept, life satisfaction is an important component of one’s subjective well-being and health. There-fore, it is important to analyse factors that may mediate the impact of stress on pregnant women’s life satisfaction. The present results might suggest that during pregnancy and preparation for childbirth, women should be provided with appro-priate psychological care. Support from medical and psychological specialists, as well as from relatives, can reduce the level of perceived fears and strengthen personal resources. Based on the present results, we conclude that the fear of childbirth and the self-esteem of pregnant women should not be underestimated, as they are important predictors of their life satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"20 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}