Emotional states and psychopathological symptoms in couples during pregnancy and post-partum

Comparing depression, anxiety, stress and psychopathological symptomatology in: pregnancy vs. post-partum in men and in women, marital partners' (men vs. women) in pregnancy and in post-partum. During perinatal period, couples undergo emotional changes and psychopathological symptoms. Descripti...

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Published in:Journal of reproductive and infant psychology 2022-07, Vol.40 (4), p.384-398
Main Authors: Forte Camarneiro, Ana Paula, de Miranda Justo, João Manuel Rosado
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Conjugality
Couples
Emotional disorders
Emotional states
Fathers
Hostility
Mens health
Mental depression
Mothers
perinatal depression
Perinatal period
Postpartum period
Postpartum women
Pregnancy
Psychological distress
psychopathological symptoms
Psychopathology
Psychosis
Sociodemographics
Somatization
Stress
Women
Womens health
Young women
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Summary:Comparing depression, anxiety, stress and psychopathological symptomatology in: pregnancy vs. post-partum in men and in women, marital partners' (men vs. women) in pregnancy and in post-partum. During perinatal period, couples undergo emotional changes and psychopathological symptoms. Descriptive-correlational-longitudinal study. Participants: Couples (n = 67; men and women = 134) interviewed in pregnancy and at 8 months post-partum. Women are younger and more educated than men. For 65.7% of couples, this was the first pregnancy. Sociodemographic and Clinical Questionnaire; Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-42; Brief Symptoms Inventory. In pregnancy, women's scores were significantly higher than men's in anxiety and somatization. In post-natal period, women presented significantly higher scores in somatization. Between pre- and post-natal periods, women's scores (stress, obsessions-compulsions, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, global severity index, positive symptoms distress index) rose significantly. Men's positive symptoms distress index rose significantly. In pregnancy, women show less stress and less psychopathological symptoms than in post-natal period. During pregnancy women are more anxious and somatise more than men. After birth, they keep somatising more. Also, in perinatal period, women's changes are more salient. The association of conjugality and motherhood-fatherhood development should be deepened in future investigation.
ISSN:0264-6838
1469-672X
DOI:10.1080/02646838.2020.1814226