Association between mothers’ and fathers’ depressive symptoms, sense of coherence and perception of their child’s temperament in early parenthood in Sweden | Zendy

Birgitta Kerstis | Zendy; Gabriella Engström | Zendy; Birgitta Edlund | Zendy; Clara Aarts | Zendy

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Association between mothers’ and fathers’ depressive symptoms, sense of coherence and perception of their child’s temperament in early parenthood in Sweden

Author(s) -

Birgitta Kerstis,

Gabriella Engström,

Birgitta Edlund,

Clara Aarts

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

scandinavian journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.953

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1651-1905

pISSN - 1403-4948

DOI - 10.1177/1403494812472006

Subject(s) - temperament , psychology , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , depressive symptoms , edinburgh postnatal depression scale , depression (economics) , perception , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , personality , anxiety , social psychology , neuroscience , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics

To examine whether there was any association between mothers' and fathers' post-partum depressive symptoms and sense of coherence and perception of their child's temperament. The hypotheses were that parents with depressive symptoms: 1) have more often a poor sense of coherence, and 2) perceive their child's temperament to be more difficult than parents without depressive symptoms.

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