Teen Childbearing and Depression: Do Pregnancy Attitudes Matter?
| Autor: | Tanya Rouleau Whitworth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Longitudinal study media_common.quotation_subject education Fertility First birth 03 medical and health sciences Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) medicine Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Depressive symptoms media_common Pregnancy 030505 public health 05 social sciences medicine.disease Mental health 050902 family studies Anthropology 0509 other social sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Adolescent health Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Marriage and Family. 79:390-404 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jomf.12380 |
| Popis: | The relationship between teen childbearing and depression has been extensively studied; however, little is known about how young women's own attitudes toward becoming pregnant shape this association. This study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate whether the relationship between teen childbearing and adult depression is moderated by adolescent attitudes toward becoming pregnant. The results showed that although, on average, women who had first births between ages 16 and 19 experienced no more depressive symptoms in adulthood than women who had first births at age 20 or older, the relationship between teen childbearing and adult depression varied significantly based on adolescent pregnancy attitudes. When they had negative adolescent attitudes toward getting pregnant, teen mothers had similar levels of depression as adult mothers, but when they had positive adolescent pregnancy attitudes, teen mothers actually had fewer depressive symptoms than women with adult first births. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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