Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University.
Division for Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2018 Jun;114(6):973-991. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000156. Epub 2017 Aug 10.
In the current study, we used 5 waves of longitudinal data from a large representative sample of Norwegian mothers (N = 84,711) to examine the association between romantic relationship satisfaction and self-esteem before and after childbirth in subgroups of first-, second-, third-, and fourth-time mothers. Maternal self-esteem showed a highly similar change pattern across subgroups. Specifically, self-esteem decreased during pregnancy, increased until the child was 6 months old, and then gradually decreased over the following years. The replication of this trajectory across subgroups and pregnancies suggests that this is a normative change pattern. For relationship satisfaction, the birth of the first child seemed to have the strongest impact compared with the birth of subsequent children. In first-time mothers, relationship satisfaction was high during pregnancy, sharply decreased around childbirth, and then gradually decreased in the following years. In second-, third-, and fourth-time mothers, the decrease in relationship satisfaction after childbirth was more gradual and linear compared with the sharp decrease found in first-time mothers. Moderate positive correlated changes between self-esteem and relationship satisfaction indicated that these constructs were linked over time. Discussion focuses on the implications of the results for theory and future research on self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, and personality-relationship transactions. (PsycINFO Database Record
在本研究中，我们使用了来自挪威母亲（N=84711）的一个大型代表性样本的 5 波纵向数据，以检验在初产妇、经产妇、经产妇和经产妇亚组中，浪漫关系满意度与产后自尊之间的关系。母亲的自尊在亚组之间表现出高度相似的变化模式。具体来说，自尊在怀孕期间下降，在孩子 6 个月大时增加，然后在接下来的几年中逐渐下降。这种轨迹在亚组和妊娠中的复制表明这是一种正常的变化模式。对于关系满意度，与随后的孩子相比，第一个孩子的出生似乎具有最强的影响。在初产妇中，怀孕期间的关系满意度较高，分娩前后急剧下降，然后在接下来的几年中逐渐下降。在经产妇、经产妇和经产妇中，与初产妇发现的急剧下降相比，产后关系满意度的下降更为渐进和线性。自尊和关系满意度之间的适度正相关变化表明，这些结构在时间上是相互关联的。讨论集中在这些结果对自尊、关系满意度和人格-关系交易理论和未来研究的意义。（心理学信息数据库记录）
