Department of Psychology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
J Fam Psychol. 2009 Dec;23(6):779-89. doi: 10.1037/a0016468.
Prenatal expectations are important for the future parent-child relationship. The authors examined how maternal and paternal prenatal expectations of the relationship with the child predicted 1st-year parenting stress and whether these expectations were violated over the transition to parenthood. They further examined how former infertility affected these associations. The participants were 745 Finnish couples, 367 having undergone a successful assisted reproductive treatment and 378 conceiving spontaneously. Couples completed a questionnaire of family representations during pregnancy and when the child was 2 and 12 months old and Abidin's Parenting Stress Index at 2 and 12 months postpartum. The hypothesis of moderately high expectations predicting the lowest level of parenting stress was substantiated only concerning paternal expectations of own autonomy with the child. Generally, however, negative expectations of own and spouse's relationship with the child were linearly associated with higher parenting stress. Postnatal representations were more positive or equal to expectations, except for negative violation occurring in maternal expectation of the father-child relationship, especially among normative mothers. The results are discussed in relation to family dynamic considerations and special features of formerly infertile couples.
产前期望对未来的亲子关系很重要。作者研究了母亲和父亲对与孩子关系的产前期望如何预测第一年的育儿压力，以及这些期望在向父母过渡期间是否被违背。他们进一步研究了以前的不孕不育如何影响这些关联。参与者是 745 对芬兰夫妇，其中 367 对接受了成功的辅助生殖治疗，378 对自然受孕。夫妇在怀孕期间和孩子 2 个月和 12 个月大时完成了一份家庭代表问卷，以及在孩子出生后 2 个月和 12 个月时使用 Abidin 的育儿压力指数进行了评估。只有父亲对自己与孩子的自主权的期望较高的假设，才能证实预测育儿压力最低的假设。然而，一般来说，对自己和配偶与孩子关系的负面期望与更高的育儿压力呈线性相关。产后的期望更积极或与期望相等，除了在母亲对父亲-孩子关系的期望中出现的负面违背，尤其是在正常的母亲中。结果将根据家庭动态考虑因素和以前不孕夫妇的特殊特征进行讨论。
