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Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in perinatal women living in Puerto Rico. COVID-19 大流行对波多黎各围产期妇女心理健康的影响。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2232388

Marianela Rodríguez-Reynaldo, Zilkia Rivera-Orraca, Gian Ramos Monserrate, Karen Martínez-González

{"title":"Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in perinatal women living in Puerto Rico.","authors":"Marianela Rodríguez-Reynaldo, Zilkia Rivera-Orraca, Gian Ramos Monserrate, Karen Martínez-González","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2232388","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2232388","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Studies have reported an increase in mental health disorders during the perinatal period as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine restrictions imposed. The effects of untreated maternal mental health have an adverse impact on the mother, the development of the baby, and the family system. Determinants of health, recent natural disasters, and disparities in perinatal care that impact perinatal women in Puerto Rico place them at a higher risk of mental health difficulties.Aim: It is therefore, of extreme importance, to evaluate the effect that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on this vulnerable population.Design: This is a cross-sectional observational study that interviewed 100 women in the perinatal period during the COVID-19 lockdown measures in Puerto Rico. Participants completed the Spanish version of the COVID-19 Perinatal Experiences (COPE-IS) questionnaire and assessments of clinical depression (PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7).Results: The prevalence of moderate to severe risk of depression in this sample is 14%, while 17% showed clinical signs of anxiety. Concerns about social impact and the quarantine mandate were the most common stressors reported. Additionally, our sample reported concerns about the impact the pandemic would have on future employment and finances.Conclusion: Perinatal women showed significantly higher prevalence of depression and anxiety during the COVID -19 pandemic when compared to the mental health prevalence of the general population pre-pandemic in Puerto Rico. The concerns identified during the pandemic provide information on the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to perinatal mental health care.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"181-194"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10776800/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10219869","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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Defining infertility: a qualitative interview study of patients and physicians. 不孕症的定义：对患者和医生的定性访谈研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2221277

K M Summers, A Scherer, E E Chasco, G L Ryan

{"title":"Defining infertility: a qualitative interview study of patients and physicians.","authors":"K M Summers, A Scherer, E E Chasco, G L Ryan","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2221277","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2221277","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: To investigate if infertility patients and physicians apply a traditional biomedical model of disease in their conceptualisation of infertility, examine any contradictions and conflicts in conceptualisations, and examine areas of concordance and discordance between physicians and patients.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 infertility patients and 18 infertility physicians between September 2010 and April 2012. Interviews were analysed qualitatively to determine physician and patient conceptualisations of infertility, reactions to the definition of infertility as a disease, and potential benefits and concerns related to application of a disease label to the condition.Results: Most physicians (n = 14/18) and a minority of patients (n = 6/20) were supportive of defining infertility as a disease. Many of the patients who agreed with classifying infertility as a disease expressed that they had not personally defined it as such previously. Physicians (n = 14) and patients (n = 13) described potential benefits of a disease label, including increases in research funding, insurance coverage, and social acceptability. Some patients (n = 10) described potential stigma as a negative consequence. When describing appraisals of infertility, both physicians (n = 7) and patients (n = 8) invoked religious/spiritual concepts. The potential for religious/spiritual appraisal to contribute to stigmatising or de-stigmatising infertility was discussed.Conclusion: Our findings contradict the assumption that infertility physicians and patients are fully supportive of defining infertility as a disease. While potential benefits of the disease label were recognised by both groups, caution against potential for stigmatisation and unsolicited invocation of religion/spirituality suggest a more holistic model may be appropriate.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"19-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9964579","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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Dyadic approach to maturity to parenthood: multilevel study on attachment in expectant and non-expectant couples. 从成熟到为人父母：准父母与非准父母依恋关系的多层次研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-27 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2230592

Ariadna Beata Łada-Maśko, Maria Kaźmierczak

{"title":"Dyadic approach to maturity to parenthood: multilevel study on attachment in expectant and non-expectant couples.","authors":"Ariadna Beata Łada-Maśko, Maria Kaźmierczak","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2230592","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2230592","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study examined links between attachment styles and maturity to parenthood and its dimensions across different age groups of childless young adult couples. The role of developmental factors (age, assuming parental role) for maturity to parenthood was also investigated.Background: Relational and individual factors have both been confirmed to be crucial for the transition to parenthood. The concept of maturity to parenthood has been linked to individual values, personality traits, and close relationships. However, the question arises whether maturity to parenthood is related to one of the most crucial concepts in family psychology - attachment.Method: Three hundred heterosexual young adult couples aged 20-35 years (Mage = 26.20; SD = 3.63) took part. Couples were divided into three groups: 1) 110 couples aged 20-25 (emerging adulthood); 2) 90 couples aged 26-35 (young adulthood); and 3) 100 couples aged 20-35 expecting their first child (third trimester of pregnancy). The main questionnaires used were the Maturity to Parenthood Scale and Close Relationship Experience Scale.Results: The results indicated that the more avoidant couples had lower maturity to parenthood. A moderation effect of group (pregnancy) was also observed - the effect of attachment-related avoidance was weaker in expectant couples. Women presented higher overall and behavioural maturity to parenthood than men. Furthermore, higher life satisfaction were associated with greater maturity to parenthood.Conclusion: Maturity to parenthood is also created in the dyadic context. When related to lower attachment avoidance, it might greatly facilitate transition to parenthood and future parent - child relations.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"76-92"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9689096","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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Psychological Well-being during Pregnancy: The Contribution of Stress Factors and Maternal-Fetal Bonding. 怀孕期间的心理健康：应激因素和母胎结合的贡献。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2222143

Meital Navon-Eyal, Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari

{"title":"Psychological Well-being during Pregnancy: The Contribution of Stress Factors and Maternal-Fetal Bonding.","authors":"Meital Navon-Eyal, Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2222143","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2222143","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Pregnancy and anticipation of the birth of the first child is considered a happy and exciting time. However, the stress involved in pregnancy has been found to put women at greater risk of impaired psychological well-being, or higher distress. Confusion in the theoretical literature between the terms 'stress' and 'distress' makes it difficult to understand the underlying mechanism that may enhance or reduce psychological well-being. We suggest that maintaining this theoretical distinction and examining stress from different sources, may allow us to gain new knowledge regarding the psychological well-being of pregnant women.Objective: Drawing on the Calming Cycle Theory, to examine a moderated mediation model for the explanation of the dynamic between two stress factors (COVID-19-related anxiety and pregnancy stress) that may pose a risk to psychological well-being, as well as the protective role of maternal-fetal bonding.Methods: The sample consisted of 1,378 pregnant women who were expecting their first child, recruited through social media and completed self-report questionnaires.Results: The higher the COVID-19-related anxiety, the higher the pregnancy stress, which, in turn, was associated with lower psychological well-being. However, this effect was weaker among women who reported greater maternal-fetal bonding.Conclusion: The study expands knowledge of the dynamic between stress factors and psychological well-being during pregnancy, and sheds light on the unexplored role of maternal-fetal bonding as a protective factor against stress.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"47-61"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9967898","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 psychosocial experience of traumatic birth in couples: an interpretative phenomenological study. 夫妻创伤性分娩的社会心理体验：解释性现象学研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2225073

Eva M Gregory, Robyn Maddern

{"title":"The psychosocial experience of traumatic birth in couples: an interpretative phenomenological study.","authors":"Eva M Gregory, Robyn Maddern","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2225073","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2225073","url":null,"abstract":"Background: One-third of women report a psychologically traumatic event during birth; limited research exists on how couples experience and process self-reported traumatic birth.Aims and objectives: This study aimed to examine the lived experience and psychosocial impact of traumatic birth in couples.Methods: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore in-depth participants' lived experience during and after traumatic childbirth. Four couples were recruited, from women experiencing vaginal deliveries in the public hospital system in Australia during the past 5 years. Women and men were interviewed individually.Results: Three superordinate themes were identified: 'Compassionless care' (experiences of being dismissed, devalued and degraded by care providers), 'Violation and subjugation' (women's bodies and birthing experiences being violated) and 'Parenting after birth trauma' (challenges in caring for a newborn following trauma and recovery from trauma).Discussion: Couples described care providers' actions as a major contributing factor to trauma experiences. Couples contextualised care in terms of under-resourced wards and perceived women were treated as a means to an end. Women and men both described feeling fearful, distressed and devalued. Following birth trauma, individual cognitive factors, such as negative self-evaluations and avoidance of the trauma memory interacted with family system to shape trauma-related distress.Conclusions: Future research would benefit from highlighting the systemic context in which compassionless care occurs, and the family system in which trauma is experienced and processed. Findings reinforce that psychosocial safety must be considered in addition to physical safety for both women and men in maternity care practices.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"121-135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9977441","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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Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case-control study. 育龄妇女自杀死亡率的相关因素：病例对照研究。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2223636

Amy M Loree, Leah M Hecht, Hsueh-Han Yeh, Lyubov Gavrilova, Katerina Furman, Joslyn Westphal, Gregory E Simon, Frances L Lynch, Arne Beck, Ashli Owen-Smith, Rebecca Rossom, Yihe G Daida, Christine Y Lu, Jennifer M Boggs, Cathrine Frank, Stephen Waring, Brian K Ahmedani

{"title":"Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case-control study.","authors":"Amy M Loree, Leah M Hecht, Hsueh-Han Yeh, Lyubov Gavrilova, Katerina Furman, Joslyn Westphal, Gregory E Simon, Frances L Lynch, Arne Beck, Ashli Owen-Smith, Rebecca Rossom, Yihe G Daida, Christine Y Lu, Jennifer M Boggs, Cathrine Frank, Stephen Waring, Brian K Ahmedani","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2223636","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2223636","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Examine demographic, psychosocial, pregnancy-related, and healthcare utilisation factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women.Methods: Data from nine health care systems in the Mental Health Research Network were included. A case-control study design was used in which 290 reproductive age women who died by suicide (cases) from 2000 to 2015 were matched with 2,900 reproductive age women from the same healthcare system who did not die by suicide (controls). Conditional logistic regression was used to analyse associations between patient characteristics and suicide.Results: Women of reproductive age who died by suicide were more likely to have mental health (aOR = 7.08, 95% CI: 5.17, 9.71) or substance use disorders (aOR = 3.16, 95% CI: 2.19, 4.56) and to have visited the emergency department in the year prior to index date (aOR = 3.47, 95% CI: 2.50, 4.80). Non-Hispanic White women (aOR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.51, 0.97) and perinatal (pregnant or postpartum) women were less likely to have died by suicide (aOR = 0.27, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.58).Conclusions: Reproductive age women with mental health and/or substance use disorders, prior emergency department encounters, or who are of racial or ethnic minority status were at increased risk of suicide mortality and may benefit from routine screening and monitoring. Future research should further examine the relationship between pregnancy-related factors and suicide mortality.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"215-226"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10716360/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9642359","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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Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions. 中国孕妇在进一步产前检测决策中的决策冲突、焦虑和社会支持

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2232380

Jia-Ming Xiang, Ling-Ling Gao

{"title":"Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions.","authors":"Jia-Ming Xiang, Ling-Ling Gao","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2232380","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2232380","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study aimed to examine decisional conflict and identify its predictors in Chinese pregnant women who were making decisions about further prenatal testing after receiving a screening result of high-risk for Down syndrome.Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2020 to July 2021 in Guangzhou, China. Two-hundred and sixty pregnant women receiving a screening result of high-risk for Down syndrome completed a questionnaire comprising the Decisional Conflict Scale, Self-rating Anxiety Scale, and Social Support Rating Scale.Results: The mean decisional conflict score was 28.8 ± 13.6, representing a moderate level. Advanced age (≥35 years), having a religious belief, not knowing about non-invasive or invasive prenatal testing, choosing NIPT for further prenatal testing, high levels of anxiety, and low levels of social support were significant predictors of decisional conflict, explaining 28.4% of its variance (F = 18.115, p < 0.001).Conclusions: The results highlighted the necessity of assessing patients' decisional conflict and providing adequate interventions along the prenatal care trajectory. The results also showed that providing good support has an essential value for women by relieving their decisional conflict.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"34-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9742360","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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Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment. 土耳其语bump的心理测量特征及其与产前依恋的关系。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2217718

Fulya Batuhan Karasin, Tulay Yilmaz

{"title":"Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment.","authors":"Fulya Batuhan Karasin, Tulay Yilmaz","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2217718","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2217718","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The present research aims to adapt the Body Understanding Measure for Pregnancy Scale (BUMPs) to Turkish, determine its psychometric properties, and examine the correlation between prenatal attachment and body image perception of pregnant women.Methods: Three hundred seventy-one pregnant women were enrolled in the research. The original English version of the BUMPs was translated into Turkish using forward-backward translation logic. The scale's reliability was evaluated with item analysis, internal consistency analysis, and test-retest reliability. Turkish version of the BUMPs and Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI) were filled out by pregnant women. The relationship between them was evaluated by correlation analysis.Results: The mean week of gestation was 25.25 ± 8.26 (min: 12, max: 41). The Turkish version of the BUMPs exhibited satisfactory psychometric properties. The t-values, factor loadings, and fit indices of the scale items of the Turkish version were at an acceptable and excellent level. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the 18-item, three-factor construct was confirmed for the Turkish version of the scale. In the Turkish version of the scale, there are three subscales, including satisfaction with appearing pregnant, weight gain concerns, and physical burdens of pregnancy. Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient of the overall scale was 0.84. A significant correlation was determined between the scores of the Turkish version of the BUMPs and the PAI (r = -0.263; p < 0.001).Conclusion: The Turkish version of the BUMPs is a valid and reliable measurement tool for determining pregnant women's body image perception. Prenatal attachment increases with the increasing body image perception of pregnant women.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"62-75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9627434","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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Relationship between social support and perinatal depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19大流行期间社会支持与围产期抑郁的关系

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2230585

Katina Kovacheva, María de la Fe Rodríguez-Muñoz, Diego Gómez-Baya, Sara Domínguez-Salas, Emma Motrico

{"title":"Relationship between social support and perinatal depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Katina Kovacheva, María de la Fe Rodríguez-Muñoz, Diego Gómez-Baya, Sara Domínguez-Salas, Emma Motrico","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2230585","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02646838.2023.2230585","url":null,"abstract":"Aims/background: This research aimed to identify the sources of social support and its relationship with perinatal depression (PPD) during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Design/methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study with a sample of 3,356 women during perinatal period living in Spain. We used five items from the Spanish version of the Coronavirus Perinatal Experiences - Impact Survey to assess the impact of COVID-19 on social support and, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was used to assess depressive symptomatology.Results: The results obtained identified a possible relationship between seeking in-person support (OR = 0.51; 0.67, during pregnancy and after delivery respectively) and degree of feeling social support (OR = 0.77; 0.77) during the COVID-19 pandemic with a lower prevalence of depression. Otherwise, requiring the help of a mental health professional (OR = 2.92; 2.41) and weeks of confinement (OR = 1.03; 1.01) appeared to be associated with a higher prevalence of depression. During pregnancy, a possible association was found between the degree of concern about future changes in support and involvement of family and friends (OR = 1.75) with a higher prevalence of depression. On the other hand, in the postpartum period, there seems to be a relationship between seeking social support through social media (OR = 1.32) with a higher prevalence of depression and receiving support from friends (OR = 0.70) and health professionals (OR = 0.53) with a lower prevalence of depression.Conclusion: These results highlighted the importance of protecting perinatal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic by protecting and developing social support networks.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"167-180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9755804","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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Empathy, Theory of Mind, and psychological outcomes in early parenthood: comparing mothers, fathers, and non-parents. 同理心、心智理论和为人父母初期的心理结果：比较母亲、父亲和非父母。

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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2024.2442470

S J Davies

{"title":"Empathy, Theory of Mind, and psychological outcomes in early parenthood: comparing mothers, fathers, and non-parents.","authors":"S J Davies","doi":"10.1080/02646838.2024.2442470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2024.2442470","url":null,"abstract":"Aims/background: Parenthood may influence social cognitive processes such as Theory of Mind (ToM) and empathy, which are linked to parental psychological well-being. However, there is limited research on these relationship in the early postpartum period (6-12 months post-birth). This study explores differences in ToM and empathy in parents of young infants compared to non-parents and examines how these traits relate to parents' psychological well-being, attachment, and caregiving attitudes.Design/methods: A sample of 209 parents (53 mothers, 56 fathers) of infants aged 6-12 months and 100 non-parents completed the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) for empathy and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) for ToM. Measures of parents' stress and psychological distress were also included.Results: Parents demonstrated higher empathic concern compared to non-parent men, with no differences in ToM. Subgroup analyses revealed distinct patterns in how empathy and ToM related to attachment, caregiving attitudes, and well-being, with empathic concern linked to lower stress in mothers and personal distress associated with poorer well-being in fathers.Conclusion: The findings underscore empathy's relevance to parental mental health and caregiving, suggesting avenues for targeted mental health interventions. Future research should employ experimental and longitudinal designs to expand on these findings.","PeriodicalId":47721,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142840020","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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