Dynamic Associations Among Sleep, Emotion Dysregulation, and Desire to Live in a Perinatal Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study prospectively examined dynamic associations among sleep, emotion dysregulation, and desire to live during the perinatal transition, as it was theorized that these factors may contribute to the emergence of postpartum suicide risk.

Method

Ninety-four women ( Mage = 29.2 years; 23.4% Latina) wore wrist actigraphs and completed twice daily surveys for 7 days during the third trimester of pregnancy, 6 weeks postpartum, and 4 months postpartum. Multilevel, change-as-outcome models were built to examine changes in attractor dynamics among sleep, emotion dysregulation, and desire to live, as well as if sleep-emotion dysregulation dynamics differed based on participants' desires to live.

Results

From pregnancy to 6 weeks postpartum, emotion dysregu

SUBMITTER: Kaliush PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11081831 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature