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| Published: September 12, 2022
Psychological Wellbeing, Postnatal Depression and Attachment among Primiparous and Multiparous Women
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sahrdaya College of Advanced Studies, Kodakara, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6073-9398
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Student, Department of Psychology, Sahrdaya College of Advanced Studies, Kodakara, India
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DIP: 18.01.082.20221003
DOI: 10.25215/1003.082
ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to understand the impact of parity and childbirth on the psychological wellbeing, postnatal depression and attachment among primiparous and multiparous women. A quantitative study was carried out in a total of 60 participants, consisting 30 primiparous and 30 multiparous women selected through convenient sampling. The Ryff Psychological Wellbeing scale, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Maternal postnatal Attachment Scale were used for data collection. Result indicated that there is no significant difference in psychological wellbeing, postnatal depression and attachment among primiparous and multiparous women. A significant positive correlation between attachment and psychological wellbeing was obtained among primiparous women and significant negative correlation between attachment and postnatal depression was obtained among multiparous women. The study concludes that adequate care must be given to all pregnant and postpartum women without differentiating parity. Future trials are required to get more broad results.
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Parity, Psychological Wellbeing, Postnatal Depression, Attachment, Primiparous Women, Multiparous Women
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Anna, P. T S & Fathima, S. A. S.
Received: December 04, 2021; Revision Received: August 22, 2022; Accepted: September 12, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.082.20221003
10.25215/1003.082
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Published in Volume 10, Issue 3, July-September, 2022