Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology最新文献

{"title":"The time of motherhood in a time of crisis: a longitudinal qualitative study.","authors":"Alessia Caffieri, Giorgia Margherita","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2243487","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2243487","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims/background: </strong>The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of women in the perinatal period has been widely shown in literature. Although longitudinal quantitative studies investigated the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on both women and children's health, no longitudinal qualitative study can be found within literature. The study aimed at an in-depth exploration of the longitudinal trajectories, from pregnancy to postpartum, lived by women through the waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.</p><p><strong>Design/methods: </strong>As a method, the qualitative approach of Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used. A total of 14 women were interviewed for the first time during pregnancy (March-May 2021/second wave of the COVID-19 spread). Among the total, 8 completed a second interview, one year later, during postpartum (March-May 2022/end of the COVID-19 public emergency) and were included in the analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three superordinated themes emerged: (1) Maternal functions during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) 'Care' needs of women in maternal services; (3) Unspeakable: obstetric violence and gender inequality in the working field. Themes were organised considering women's experience, showing continuity and discontinuity paths overtime.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Women in their perinatal period during the COVID-19 pandemic felt like 'living incubators', both isolated and invested in individual and social responsibilities of 'caring'.The study confirms the need to re-centre maternal care services' praxis on women's needs as an act of collective repair against the consequences of collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"515-531"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9920815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does rejection sensitivity predict impaired mother-infant bonding? A longitudinal study.","authors":"Maja Brekalo, Marijana Matijaš, Maja Žutić, Sandra Nakić Radoš","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2471319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2471319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mother-infant bonding refers to emotional, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioural ties between mother and infant. It is a process that develops from pregnancy throughout infancy. Rejection sensitivity could be one of the risk factors for impaired bonding, and it is defined as a personality disposition that is characterised by an anxious expectation of rejection in social situations. It is known that rejection sensitivity is a predictor of problems in relationships, but its association with difficulties in mother-infant bonding is still unknown.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This was a three-wave online longitudinal study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, 1052 women participated in the second trimester of pregnancy (T1), 879 of them participated during the third trimester (T2), and 758 of them in the postpartum period (T3; 6-21 weeks). Women completed the Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, Prenatal Attachment Inventory, Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire, and Sociodemographic and obstetric data. Mother-infant bonding had three dimensions: Impaired bonding, Anxiety about care and maternal distress, and Lack of enjoyment and affection with the baby.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The path analysis was conducted where rejection sensitivity (T1) was the predictor, mother-foetal bonding (T2) mediator, and mother-infant bonding (T3) criterium while parity, education level, and place of living were covariates. Higher rejection sensitivity predicted impaired dimensions of mother-infant bonding in the postpartum directly and indirectly via lower mother-foetal bonding during pregnancy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Women with high rejection sensitivity are at risk for impaired bonding in the peripartum period. Those women should be identified during pregnancy, and special attention should be given to prevent bonding difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The course of women's emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period.","authors":"Lea Takács, Samuel P Putnam, Catherine Monk, Šárka Kaňková, Jana Ullmann, Sameera Abuaish, Jakub Kreisinger","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2466622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2466622","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Most studies on emotions in the perinatal period have focused on psychopathology, identifying groups of women with distinct symptom trajectories, but research on typical, normative changes in emotions across the perinatal period is scarce. This study examines typical patterns of emotions in low-risk, healthy perinatal population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective longitudinal study with 151 participants who completed emotion-related questionnaires (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Perceived Stress Scale, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) six times during pregnancy and twice in the postpartum. Linear mixed effect models were used to test whether maternal emotions underwent significant changes across the perinatal period and whether those changes are affected by child sex and parity. Nonlinear temporal trends were fitted by natural cubic splines.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For all emotions, we observed significant nonlinear changes across the perinatal period. Negative affect and anxiety decreased and positive affect increased significantly from the first to the third trimester. Depressive symptoms showed a U-shaped pattern and perceived stress remained unchanged during pregnancy. Negative affect and anxiety increased significantly from the third trimester to the first postpartum week. After stratifying for parity, the increase in negative emotions with approaching childbirth occurred only in primiparae.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Low-risk pregnancy and the early postpartum period are associated with emotional changes which differ depending on parity. Health care providers should inform pregnant women about those common changes to help them develop realistic expectations and enhance their ability to cope with the demands of pregnancy and the early postpartum period.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people's attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions.","authors":"Sanne Agterberg, Loes van Rijn-van Gelderen, Floor van Rooij, Maurits de Vos, Eva Jaspers, Ruben Fukkink, Monique Mochtar, Mariëtte Goddijn, Henny Bos","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2462076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2462076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Over time, surrogacy has become more broadly available to a variety of people (e.g. male same-sex couples or transgender women). Whether the wider public supports surrogacy, and what contributes to such support remains unclear. This study investigated what demographic and surrogacy arrangement-based (which people participate in the arrangement) factors shape attitudes towards surrogacy.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A representative sample of Dutch adults (<i>N</i> = 1,074) reported their attitudes on four (out of 30) randomly assigned vignettes in 2023. Each vignette described a surrogacy family with variations in sexuality and gender of parents, the social and genetic bonds between the parents, the surrogate, and the oocyte donor, and was followed by an attitude questionnaire (6 items). Multilevel regression analyses were conducted with attitudes as the dependent variable and demographic factors (gender, Dutch background, age, education, sexual orientation, urbanisation, and religiosity) and arrangement-based factors (parental composition, genetic and social bonds with the surrogate, and oocyte donors).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants held fairly positive attitudes towards surrogacy. People identifying as women, with only having a Dutch background, who were younger, more highly educated, non-heterosexual, or less religious were more likely to have positive attitudes. Participants had more positive attitudes if surrogacy arrangements entailed cis-man cis-woman parents compared to cis-man cis-man or transgender parents, and when there was no social bond between parents and oocyte donor.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Attitudes are influenced by both demographic and arrangement-based factors. Based on these findings, families can be informed of fairly positive reactions they might encounter from their environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interventions to address postpartum depression in South Asian countries: a scoping review.","authors":"Karuna Poddar, Basil H Aboul-Enein, Parth Lalakia, Veereshkumar Nandagaon, Amey Khande, Shweta Angadi, Babita Belgundkar, Patricia J Kelly","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2464047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2464047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Postpartum depression (PPD) can result in poor health outcomes in mothers, affect maternal-child bonding and have long-term effects on child development.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The aim of this review was to identify existing studies on PPD and characterise any gaps in literature.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a scoping review of 14 databases using a combination of search terms and phrases related to PPD and the respective Southern Asian countries. We applied the criteria from the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews to identify relevant articles from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka published between January 2004 and September 2024.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 20 studies conducted in only four of the South Asian countries: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Fifteen were studies with clear post-intervention outcomes; five had process outcomes. Intervention studies used trained community health workers in a variety of psychosocial programs, many with culturally specific content, including adoption of language and integration of local activities. Among the 15 intervention studies, six had positive maternal mental health outcomes and three had positive pediatric-related findings.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The 20 articles identified address the important problem of PPD in South Asia. The positive findings in both the large randomised control trials and small pilot studies identified in this article, combined with the studies' use of the resource of community health workers, suggest that the gap in the literature is less on identifying effective interventions and more on securing the political and policy resolution to address the problem of PPD.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Redefining elective co-parenting as PACT: a systematic assessment of published concepts and definitions.","authors":"L Decappelle, G Pennings, H Bos, V Provoost","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2459156","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2459156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is an increase in the variation of family forms, types of parenthood roles and methods for family formation. One way of family building has most recently been referred to as 'elective co-parenting'. Yet, many other terms and somewhat diverging concept definitions have been put forward. This paper aims to establish a fundamental conceptual framework.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We will adhere to a tailored set of guidelines for conceptual ethics organised in four stages: (i) Using a minimal scoping review of published definitions potential attributes are identified, (ii) The potential attributes are organised by theme in order to identify any necessary and sufficient or shared ones, (iii) A conceptual definition of the concept is developed, (iv) The most fitting concept label is determined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Current terminology lacks comprehensiveness and often contains additional (hidden) meanings, thereby jeopardising its usability for research on contemporary family formation. We suggest a new nomenclature.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We suggest PACT (Pre-conception Agreement-based Co-parenting Together-apart) instead of 'elective co-parenting' (or equivalents) as a new concept label for this particular family type, whereby at least two parties of co-parents have agreed before the conception of a child to share parenting of this child. A party can refer either to an individual or a set of romantically involved individuals. Although there may be different types of loving relationships between some (or all) co-parents within this constellation, there is at least some 'detachment' that is recognised as being created and present by an absence of romantic love between those parties.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'You've gotta be a man and be strong': Pakistani fathers' experiences of perinatal loss.","authors":"Rebekka Harrison, Gary Urquhart Law, Samantha Day","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2024.2448962","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2024.2448962","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims/background: </strong>Although women physically experience pregnancy, and grief might manifest differently, both mothers and fathers are affected similarly by perinatal loss. Research has predominately focused on Caucasian men, with the experiences of men from ethnic minority groups not researched. In the UK, the Pakistani community has one of the highest rates of perinatal loss, therefore this research aimed to explore the experiences of perinatal loss in Pakistani men.</p><p><strong>Design/method: </strong>Five Pakistani men who experienced perinatal loss, sometime between four months to eight years ago, were recruited via posters placed at NHS maternity and mental health services, a third sector service, and social media. Semi-structured interviews were used, and transcripts analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.</p><p><strong>Results/conclusion: </strong>Three Group Experiential Themes with a total of six group level subthemes were identified: 'A rollercoaster of emotions: from shock and distress to having hope', 'The hidden experience of baby loss as a Muslim man', and 'The felt stigma of baby loss in the Muslim community'. Perinatal loss results in ever-changing emotions, with a shift from shock to sense making through religion. Perinatal loss was considered a hidden experience, with men masking emotional responses by a desire to be seen as strong and supportive. The felt stigma of perinatal loss was discussed in the context of silenced conversations and a disconnection between religion and community. Further research is needed to consider different experiences of perinatal loss such as time frames since loss, having children prior to or after a loss, and other Muslim subgroups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"We are not abnormal\": experiences and management of stigma among Chinese women struggling with infertility.","authors":"Yujun Lin, Hengyi Guo, Chunmu Li","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2456228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2456228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While numerous studies have highlighted the stigma experienced by women facing infertility, there is limited research that delves into the specific types of stigmas they encounter. Despite extensive discussions surrounding the Stigma Management Communication (SMC) theory and its application in managing stigma across various contexts, its utilisation in understanding and addressing the stigma experienced by women with infertility has been largely overlooked. This study seeks to bridge this gap by identifying forms of stigma that Chinese women experiencing infertility encounter and analysing the strategies they use to manage it.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Eighteen one-to-one semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted to gather comprehensive information. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Chinese women experiencing infertility encountered structural, interpersonal and individual stigma. Regarding stigma management, participants employed three strategies: accepting personal stigma and acknowledging societal perceptions, accepting personal stigma while challenging societal perceptions, and challenging personal stigma while accepting societal perceptions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Structural, individual, and interpersonal stigma were identified through the participants, expanding the understanding of stigma. The research underscored that personal emotions, government policies, and cultural norms were essential contextual factors in understanding SMC theory and highlighted the association between SMC strategies and consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prenatal couple relationship satisfaction, romantic attachment, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms.","authors":"Stephanie Alves, Margarida Pratas, Matilde Sousa, Daniela Fidalgo, Ana Morais, Inês Jongenelen, Diogo Lamela, Tiago Miguel Pinto, Raquel Costa","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2452908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2452908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Traumatic childbirth can lead to childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (CB-PTSS). Although underexplored, prenatal couple relationship satisfaction and romantic attachment orientations are modifiable factors that may increase or mitigate the risk of CB-PTSS after a traumatic childbirth experience.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study examined (1) the associations between prenatal couple relationship satisfaction and romantic attachment, traumatic childbirth and CB-PTSS; (2) whether prenatal couple relationship satisfaction moderates the association between traumatic childbirth and CB-PTSS; and (3) whether the interaction between prenatal couple relationship satisfaction and romantic attachment moderates the association between traumatic childbirth and CB-PTSS.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample included 162 mothers from a Portuguese longitudinal cohort who completed self-report questionnaires at the third trimester of pregnancy (T1) and at two months postpartum (T2), on sociodemographic, mental health-related, and obstetric data (T1 and T2), couple relationship satisfaction (T1), romantic attachment (T1), traumatic childbirth experience (T2) and CB-PTSS (T2). Hierarchical regression analyses and moderated moderation models were performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Lower prenatal couple relationship satisfaction predicted greater CB-PTSS severity, before accounting for attachment-related anxiety and avoidance. Attachment-related anxiety predicted greater CB-PTSS severity. The association between traumatic childbirth experience and CB-PTSS severity was only significant at low levels of prenatal couple relationship satisfaction and medium or high levels of attachment-related anxiety.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Especially in mothers reporting higher attachment-related anxiety, lower prenatal couple relationship satisfaction seems to increase the risk of CB-PTSS following the experience of a traumatic childbirth. Couple relationship satisfaction and romantic attachment orientations should be assessed during routine prenatal screenings, along with childbirth experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental burnout, personality, and parenting alliance in first-time mothers and fathers during the perinatal period.","authors":"Jacopo Tracchegiani, Nicola Carone","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2025.2451379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2451379","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Parental burnout - a condition characterised by intense exhaustion related to parenting, emotional distancing from one's children, a loss of parental fulfilment, and a lack of recognition of oneself as the parent used and wanted to be - is particularly critical during the perinatal period. While previous research has focused mainly on mothers, suggesting that dispositional and couple factors influence parental burnout more than sociodemographic factors, little is known about fathers' experiences and the influence of personality and couple functioning on parental burnout.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This cross-sectional study examined the impact of personality functioning (Level of Personality Functioning Scale - Brief Form 2.0) and the moderating role of parenting alliance (Parenting Alliance Measure) on parental burnout (Parental Burnout Assessment) among 434 cisgender heterosexual first-time parents (345 primary caregiving mothers: <i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 38.03, <i>SD</i> = 6.20; 89 secondary caregiving fathers: <i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 38.29, <i>SD</i> = 6.85) with children aged 0-12 months (49.54% assigned females at birth).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fathers reported lower parental burnout and higher parenting alliance compared to mothers. Greater impairments in self-functioning were associated with increased parental burnout, particularly in mothers. Parenting alliance moderated this relationship; lower perceived parenting alliance amplified the negative impact of self-functioning impairments on parental burnout for both mothers and fathers. Interpersonal functioning did not significantly predict parental burnout.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Tailored interventions, especially perinatally, should aim at strengthening parenting alliance and enhancing mothers' and fathers' self-functioning, with future research exploring diverse family and cultural contexts for comprehensive intervention strategies. Limitations and future directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142956751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}