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New Motherhood: A Time of Crisis?
Author(s) -
Celotta Beverly
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1982.tb01598.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , anxiety , psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , personality , psychiatry , developmental psychology , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Twenty‐three women who sought out prenatal (22) and parenting (23) classes scored in the normal range for physical complaints, ego strength, depression, anxiety, and the lie scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) at an average of 3.5 months postpartum, and had improved scores overall when tested again six weeks later. It is suggested that for this group of women new parenthood may not be as great a crisis as some studies have indicated.