Relationship of maternal and general self-acceptance to pre- and postpartum affective experience.
Forty-nine married primiparous Israeli women responded to W. W. K. Zung's (1965) Self-Rating Depression Scale, N. M. Bradburn's (1969) Affect Balance Scale, and measures of general and maternal self-acceptance during the last trimester of pregnancy and again 6 to 8 weeks following childbirth. There was a significant decrease in depression from pre- to postpartum for the total group. Women high in general self-acceptance were less depressed and displayed less negative affect than those low in general self-acceptance. There were no corresponding differences between the high and low maternal self-acceptance groups. Both pre- and postpartum women tended to rate themselves significantly higher for maternal self-acceptance than for general self-acceptance.
Dimitrovsky
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Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. dimitrl@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
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Itskowitz
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D000328:Adult; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept