Hope, social support, and postpartum depression: Disentangling the mediating effects of negative affectivity Academic Article

abstract

• We examined the potentially mediating effects of negative affectivity (NA) on the hope-depression relationship among a sample of postpartum women. We also assessed the social support reported by these women and examined the possible mediating effects of NA on the social support-postpartum depression relationship. Correlational analyses of data obtained from women (N = 98) who had given birth in the previous 6 months revealed that NA did not mediate either hope or social support in the prediction of postpartum depression. Hope accounted for a significant degree of variance in postpartum depression. These data suggest that hope has palliative effects among women following childbirth and these effects are not nullified or explained by emotional predispositions. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005.

authors

• Elliott, Timothy

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICAL SETTINGS

author list (cited authors)

• Thio, I. M., & Elliott, T. R.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• Thio, IM||Elliott, TR

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings  Journal

keywords

• Depression
• Hope
• Negative Affectivity
• Postpartum
• Social Support

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s10880-005-7814-0

start page

• 293

end page

• 299

volume

• 12

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10880-005-7814-0