ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
The moderating role of resilience resources in the association between stressful life events and symptoms of postpartum depression.
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- Role of psychological resilience and social support in perinatal depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- Resilience and mental health among perinatal women: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- A Stress Process Model of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Among Thai Mothers: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Resilience in the early postpartum period: Buffering the impact of maternal ACEs on infant socioemotional development.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- The Moderating Role of Psychological Well-Being in the Relation Between Stressful Life Events and Common Mental Disorders in the General Population.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Life events and postpartum depressive symptoms among Black and Latina mothers: The role of protective factors.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2026Article
- Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Antepartum Depression Symptoms: A Prospective Cohort Study.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- The Relationship of Religious Coping with Psychological Well-being, Psychological Resilience, and Grief Severity in Women Who Had Experienced Perinatal Loss in Türkiye.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Predictors of postpartum depression in Syrian refugee women: indirect pathways between postmigration stress and depression through resilience and social support.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Social Support Postpartum: Bengali Women from India on Their Coping Experiences following Childbirth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Resilience resources, life stressors, and postpartum depressive symptoms in a community sample of low and middle-income Black, Latina, and White mothers.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Mastery is central: an examination of complex interrelationships between physical health, stress and adaptive cognition, and social connection with depression and anxiety symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exploring prevalence and factors associated with postpartum depression among Ukrainian women.European journal of midwifery · 2024Article
- Maternal Early Life Adversity and Infant Stress Regulation: Intergenerational Associations and Mediation by Maternal Prenatal Mental Health.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- The mediating effects of dysfunctional attitudes and moderating effect of sex between stressful life events and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Work-Family Conflict and Mental Health among Chinese Female Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effects of Resilience.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Stressful Life Events and Health Outcomes in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women from Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2023Article
- Dispositional Optimism, Mode of Delivery, and Perceived Labor Control among Recently Delivered Parturients.American journal of perinatology · 2023Observational
- Mitochondrial might: powering the peripartum for risk and resilience.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Perinatal Depression in Australian Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Birth in the Time of COVID-19 (BITTOC) Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundOne in seven women experience postpartum depression, posing a serious public health concern. One of the most robust predictors of elevated postpartum depressive symptoms is major stressful life events that occur during pregnancy. Having greater resilience resources that promote successful adaptation to stressful demands may be protective in the face of stress during pregnancy. The current study tested whether three resilience resources- mastery, dispositional optimism, and spirituality- each predicted early symptoms of postpartum depression and moderated the hypothesized association between experiencing stressful life events during pregnancy and symptoms of postpartum depression.
methodsThe sample included 233 women who participated in a prospective longitudinal study from pregnancy through postpartum. Depressive symptoms were assessed at approximately 4 to 8 weeks after birth, whereas resilience resources and stressful life events were measured in pregnancy. Multiple linear regressions were used to test hypotheses.
resultsStressful life events predicted greater symptoms of depression postpartum. Mastery and optimism predicted fewer symptoms of depression postpartum. Mastery moderated the association between stressful life events and symptoms of depression when controlling for previous psychiatric history, t(231) = -1.97, p=.0497. LIMITATIONS: There was some attrition among study participants across timepoints, which was accounted for in analyses with multiple imputation.
conclusionsThese findings point to the protective nature of a mother's sense of mastery in the face of major life stressors during pregnancy and suggest this is an important construct to target in interventions addressing postpartum depression.
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