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Social support and pregnancy:II. Its relationship with depressive symptoms among Japanese women
Author(s) -
KITAMURA TOSHINOFU,
TODA MARI A.,
SHIMA SATORU,
SUGAWARA KENSUKE,
SUGAWARA MASUMI
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb00970.x
Subject(s) - irritability , social support , pregnancy , psychology , mood , psychosocial , clinical psychology , cognition , depression (economics) , premenstrual dysphoric disorder , edinburgh postnatal depression scale , psychiatry , mood swing , developmental psychology , depressive symptoms , medicine , menstrual cycle , social psychology , macroeconomics , biology , hormone , economics , genetics
In a questionnaire survey among 1329 first‐trimester pregnant women, both the husband support measures and unwanted pregnancy (‘stressor’ agent in pregnancy) showed significant effects on an elevated score of the cognitive disturbance subscale of the Zung's self‐rating depression scale (SDS), while only unwanted pregnancies showed an effect on an elevated score of the dysphoric mood subscale of the SDS. However, no interaction was observed between the husband support measures and unwanted pregnancy, therefore the effect of the husband's social support on the cognitive disturbance score was not that of a buffer, but rather a main effector. Finally, multiple regression analyses showed that the dysphoric mood score was preceded by unwanted pregnancy, premenstrual irritability, public self‐consciousness, and maternal overprotection; while the cognitive disturbance score was preceded by unwanted pregnancy, husband reduced ‘given’ and ‘giving’ support, maternal reduced care and overprotection, paternal reduced care, low annual income, low private self‐consciousness, and smoking. These findings suggest that the husband's support for a pregnant woman is effective only in reducing cognitive symptoms, and that different symptomatic constellations have different sets of psychosocial correlates.