Couples' relationship affects mothers' and fathers' anxiety and depression trajectories over the transition to parenthood

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8815183	Journal of Affective Disorders	2018	38 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Our results suggest that mothers' and fathers' positive and negative interactions affect their anxiety and depression symptoms trajectories: negative interaction raises mothers' and fathers' depression symptoms and positive interaction prevents the increase of fathers' anxiety symptoms over the postpartum period.

Keywords

positive interaction Anxiety Depression transition to parenthood Pregnancy Postpartum period couple relationship Fathers

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Couples' relationship affects mothers' and fathers' anxiety and depression trajectories over the transition to parenthood

Authors

Bárbara Figueiredo, Catarina Canário, Iva Tendais, Tiago Miguel Pinto, David A. Kenny, Tiffany Field,