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Development of negative and positive emotionality in irritable and nonirritable neonates. 易怒和不易怒新生儿消极和积极情绪的发展。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2233987

Beth Troutman, Allison M Momany, Kelly L Elliott

{"title":"Development of negative and positive emotionality in irritable and nonirritable neonates.","authors":"Beth Troutman, Allison M Momany, Kelly L Elliott","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2233987","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2233987","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The current study compares the development of negative and positive emotionality of irritable and nonirritable neonates.Background: Research indicates that the first few months of life are marked by decreases in negative emotionality and increases in positive emotionality.Methods: The Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) was administered twice to 111 neonates at 3 and 4 weeks of age to select a sample of irritable neonates and a comparison group of nonirritable neonates. Mothers completed assessments of negative and positive emotionality at 1, 2, 4, and 9 months of age.Results: Both irritable and nonirritable neonates demonstrate a significant decrease in frustration and a significant increase in positive emotionality from 2 to 4 months of age. Irritable neonates also demonstrate a significant decrease in negative emotionality from 4 to 9 months of age. Both irritable and nonirritable neonates demonstrate considerable stability in negative and positive emotionality.Conclusion: Implications of these results for parent education and early intervention are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"501-514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11610226/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9836681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social support, temperament and previous prenatal loss interact to predict depression and anxiety during pregnancy. 社会支持、气质和之前的产前损失相互作用，预测怀孕期间的抑郁和焦虑。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2237523

Oiana Echabe-Ecenarro, Izaskun Orue, Nerea Cortazar

{"title":"Social support, temperament and previous prenatal loss interact to predict depression and anxiety during pregnancy.","authors":"Oiana Echabe-Ecenarro, Izaskun Orue, Nerea Cortazar","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2237523","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2237523","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Pregnancy is considered a complex period in a woman's life due to the changes that occur at different levels, which increase her vulnerability to developing psychological symptoms. A woman's temperament and perceived social support may play important roles in the development of such symptomatology. The main objective of the present work was to evaluate whether social support is an effective coping resource against the development of symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially among women with certain personality types, while also considering previous prenatal losses.Methods: The participants were 534 pregnant women in their 26th week of gestation. They completed measures related to social support, temperament (i.e. neuroticism and extraversion) and symptoms of depression and anxiety and informed us of any previous prenatal losses.Results: The association between social support and depression was negative only for women who scored high on neuroticism. Extraversion did not interact with social support to predict depression or anxiety. Additionally, temperament interacted with previous prenatal losses, playing a relevant role in the development of anxiety symptoms. Previous losses had a greater effect on women who scored low in extraversion or high in neuroticism. Finally, a triple interaction between temperament, social support and previous prenatal loss emerged, indicating that previous prenatal loss was related to anxiety in women with low social support and low extraversion.Conclusion: Pregnant women, especially those who have suffered a previous prenatal loss and score high in neuroticism or low in extraversion, may benefit from interventions that enhance social support.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"413-426"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9826658","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}

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The time of motherhood in a time of crisis: a longitudinal qualitative study. 危机时期的母性时间：一项纵向定性研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2243487

Alessia Caffieri, Giorgia Margherita

{"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":"Aims/background: 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.Design/methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusion: 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.","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}

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Does rejection sensitivity predict impaired mother-infant bonding? A longitudinal study. 排斥敏感性是否预示着母婴关系受损？一项纵向研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2471319

Maja Brekalo, Marijana Matijaš, Maja Žutić, Sandra Nakić Radoš

{"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":"Background: 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.Design: This was a three-wave online longitudinal study.Methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusion: 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.","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}

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The course of women's emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period. 女性情绪从怀孕初期到产后的过程。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2466622

Lea Takács, Samuel P Putnam, Catherine Monk, Šárka Kaňková, Jana Ullmann, Sameera Abuaish, Jakub Kreisinger

{"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":"Background: 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.Methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusion: 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.","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}

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Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people's attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions. 荷兰人在不同家庭结构中对代孕态度的人口统计学和基于安排的预测因素。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2462076

Sanne Agterberg, Loes van Rijn-van Gelderen, Floor van Rooij, Maurits de Vos, Eva Jaspers, Ruben Fukkink, Monique Mochtar, Mariëtte Goddijn, Henny Bos

{"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":"Introduction: 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.Method: A representative sample of Dutch adults (N = 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).Results: 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.Conclusions: 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.","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}

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Interventions to address postpartum depression in South Asian countries: a scoping review. 南亚国家解决产后抑郁症的干预措施：范围审查。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2464047

Karuna Poddar, Basil H Aboul-Enein, Parth Lalakia, Veereshkumar Nandagaon, Amey Khande, Shweta Angadi, Babita Belgundkar, Patricia J Kelly

{"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":"Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) can result in poor health outcomes in mothers, affect maternal-child bonding and have long-term effects on child development.Aims: The aim of this review was to identify existing studies on PPD and characterise any gaps in literature.Methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusion: 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.","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}

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Redefining elective co-parenting as PACT: a systematic assessment of published concepts and definitions. 将选择性共同养育重新定义为 PACT：对已公布的概念和定义进行系统评估。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2459156

L Decappelle, G Pennings, H Bos, V Provoost

{"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":"Background: 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.Methods: 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.Results: 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.Conclusion: 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.","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}

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'You've gotta be a man and be strong': Pakistani fathers' experiences of perinatal loss. “你必须成为一个坚强的男人”：巴基斯坦父亲的围产期损失经历。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2024.2448962

Rebekka Harrison, Gary Urquhart Law, Samantha Day

{"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":"Aims/background: 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.Design/method: 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.Results/conclusion: 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.","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}

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"We are not abnormal": experiences and management of stigma among Chinese women struggling with infertility. “我们并不不正常”：中国不孕女性的经历与污名化处理。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2025.2456228

Yujun Lin, Hengyi Guo, Chunmu Li

{"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":"Background: 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.Method: Eighteen one-to-one semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted to gather comprehensive information. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data.Results: 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.Conclusions: 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.","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}

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