Is Baby a Blessing? Wantedness, Age at First Birth, and Later-Life Depression
| Autor: | Heather M. Rackin, Melanie Sereny Brasher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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030505 public health
Unwanted Births education Blessing Mental health Birth rate Developmental psychology First birth 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Life circumstances 030212 general & internal medicine National Longitudinal Surveys 0305 other medical science Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Marriage and Family. 78:1269-1284 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jomf.12357 |
| Popis: | Research has found that both unintended and nonnormatively timed births have negative consequences, yet little is known about how birth timing and intention jointly influence mothers' mental health. This study explored how the interaction between intention and age at first birth influenced depression 5 to 13 years later by analyzing the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 2,573). We found that mistimed births, when compared with wanted births, were associated with depression, but only for normatively timed transitions to motherhood. Surprisingly, teen mothers who had unwanted births had better later-life mental health than teens who had wanted or mistimed births. Among women with wanted or mistimed first births, increasing age at birth was associated with lower probabilities of depression. Most, but not all, of these effects were explained by selection factors and life circumstances. Results show the importance of examining joint effects of first birth wantedness and timing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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