Childbirth Experience Associated With Maternal and Paternal Stress During the First Year, but Not Child Attachment.

ABSTRACT: Women, as well as their partners, can experience childbirth in many different ways. A negative childbirth experience may have adverse effects on the entire family, resulting, for instance, in parental stress symptoms and a weakened parent-child relationship. Parental stress, without sufficient resources to compensate for it, may also in and of itself negatively influence the parent-child relationship. This study contributes to the current knowledge of the psychological effects of childbirth experience by using longitudinal data collected with both self-reports and observational measures, as well as multiple informants (i.e., mothers and partners). The aim of this study was to investigate whether 1) women's retrospective birth experiences were related to maternal and paternal parenting stre

SUBMITTER: Holopainen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504903 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature