ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2025
Linking self-esteem and marital adjustment among couples in the third trimester of pregnancy: the mediating role of dyadic coping.
Article in BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Romantic Relationship Quality and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Late Pregnancy: The Serial Mediating Role of Depression and Body Dissatisfaction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPregnancy poses a significant stressor for married couples. Alterations in marital dynamics may affect the marital adjustment of both parties, particularly in the third trimester of pregnancy. Self-esteem serves as a protective factor for marital adjustment; however, the extent to which dyadic coping strategies, which are jointly enacted by both partners, contribute to this process remains unexplored. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the effect of self-esteem on marital adjustment among couples in the third trimester of pregnancy, while exploring the potential mediating role of dyadic coping in this association.
methodsA total of 228 pregnant women and their spouses (n = 456) participated in the study, completing the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Dyadic Coping Inventory, and the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale independently. The actor-partner interdependence mediation model was used to examine the associations between these three variables within the dyad.
resultsRegarding the intra-individual aspect, a direct effect of self-esteem on marital adjustment (β = 0.282, P = 0.027 for women and β = 0.298, P = 0.014 for men) and an indirect effect of self-esteem on marital adjustment through dyadic coping (β = 0.334, 95% CI = 0.183, 0.526 for women and β = 0.315, 95% CI = 0.165, 0.510 for men) were found. As for the inter-individual aspect, an indirect effect was found, with actors' self-esteem being associated with partners' marital adjustment through partners' dyadic coping (β = 0.174, 95% CI = 0.043, 0.350 for women and β = 0.161, 95% CI = 0.048, 0.327 for men).
conclusionsThese findings highlight the importance of assessing the dyadic coping strategies of couples during late pregnancy to regulate the effect of self-esteem on marital adjustment and targeting them in the couple-based psychological support offered to couples to improve their dyadic coping and, consequently, their marital adjustment.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.