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Marital disharmony four and a half years post partum
Author(s) -
Nettelbladt P.,
Uddenberg N.,
Englesson I.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb02539.x
Subject(s) - post partum , psychology , developmental psychology , marital relationship , longitudinal study , mental health , marital status , demography , clinical psychology , pregnancy , medicine , psychiatry , population , genetics , pathology , sociology , biology
This longitudinal study of primiparous women concerns factors related to the quality of the marital relationship 4 1/2 years after the birth of the first child. Information was independently collected from the women, their husbands and children. A poor relationship to the partner and impaired mental health in the women post partum were associated with marital disharmony at follow‐up. In disharmonious marriages more often than in others parents were estimated to have a rejecting attitude towards their child and the child to have a rejecting attitude towards its parents. Further, in these marriages poor parental relationships of boys were more common than those of girls and socially immature boys as compared to socially immature girls overrepresented.