Albuja Analia F, Lara M Asunción, Navarrete Laura, Nieto Lourdes
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University.
Department of Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz.
Sex Roles. 2017 Aug;77(3-4):209-220. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0705-z. Epub 2016 Nov 23.
Women who lack social support tend to have a higher risk of postpartum depression. The present study examined the traditional female role, understood here as the adoption of passive and submissive traits specific to Mexican women, as another risk factor for postpartum depressive symptomatology that interacts with social support. Using two waves of data from a longitudinal study of 210 adult Mexican women (20-44 years-old, = 29.50 years, = 6.34), we found that lacking social support during the third trimester of their pregnancy was associated with greater depressive symptoms at 6 months in the postpartum, although this relationship depended on the level of endorsement of the traditional female role during pregnancy. Lower social support during pregnancy predicted greater postpartum depressive symptoms for women with higher endorsement of the traditional female role, even when accounting for prenatal depressive symptoms. These results suggest that Mexican women's experience of social support may depend on their individual adherence to gender roles. Understanding the association between women's traditional roles and social support in the risk for postpartum depression can improve prevention and educational programs for women at risk.
缺乏社会支持的女性往往有更高的产后抑郁风险。本研究将传统女性角色（在此理解为墨西哥女性所特有的被动和顺从特质）视为产后抑郁症状的另一个风险因素，它会与社会支持相互作用。利用对210名成年墨西哥女性（年龄在20 - 44岁之间，平均年龄 = 29.50岁，标准差 = 6.34）进行的纵向研究的两波数据，我们发现，在孕期第三个月缺乏社会支持与产后6个月时更严重的抑郁症状相关，尽管这种关系取决于孕期对传统女性角色的认可程度。即使在考虑产前抑郁症状的情况下，孕期较低的社会支持也预示着对传统女性角色认可度较高的女性产后抑郁症状更严重。这些结果表明，墨西哥女性对社会支持的体验可能取决于她们对性别角色的个人坚持。了解女性传统角色与社会支持在产后抑郁风险中的关联，可以改善针对有风险女性的预防和教育项目。
