title: Social energy exchange theory for postpartum depression.
abstract: Postpartum depression (PPD), a significant health problem affecting about 19.4% of postpartum women worldwide, may result in long-term cognitive and behavior problems in children, spousal depression, widespread family dysfunction, and chronic and increasingly severe maternal depression. Although current theoretical frameworks provide a rich context for studying PPD,none provides a framework that specifically addresses the dynamic relationship of the inner personal experience with the social and cultural context of PPD. The authors propose the social energy exchange theory for postpartum depression to understand how PPD impedes this dynamic relationship and suggest it as a theoretical framework for the study of interventions that would target intra- and interpersonal disturbance within the social and cultural context.
authors.affiliation: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. bp98@drexel.edu
authors.forename: Bobbie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Posmontier
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waite
mesh_terms: D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008429:Maternal Welfare / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D011247:Pregnancy; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012944:Social Support; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*