Park Ki Tae
1 University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2018 Mar;30(2):167-177. doi: 10.1177/1010539517753735. Epub 2018 Jan 23.
This study examines how levels of marital quality change the effect of social support on postpartum psychological distress among new Korean mothers using the Panel Study on Korean Children (N = 1585). In accord with findings from previous studies, this study shows that low marital quality negatively affects new mothers' mental health, but that social support alleviates psychological distress independent of marital quality. The main finding of this research is that the moderating effect of social support is contingent on levels of marital quality. Aggregated social support moderates the effects of marital quality on new mothers' mental health only when the level of marital quality is low. Furthermore, each dimension of social support (emotional, informational, and instrumental) only has a moderating effect when marital quality is low. The findings highlight the fact that the moderating effect of social support varies with the individual context and so customized social support that fits individual needs matters for the mental health of new mothers.
本研究利用韩国儿童面板研究（N = 1585），考察婚姻质量水平如何改变社会支持对韩国初为人母者产后心理困扰的影响。与以往研究结果一致，本研究表明，低婚姻质量会对新妈妈的心理健康产生负面影响，但社会支持能减轻心理困扰，且与婚姻质量无关。本研究的主要发现是，社会支持的调节作用取决于婚姻质量水平。只有当婚姻质量水平较低时，综合社会支持才会调节婚姻质量对新妈妈心理健康的影响。此外，只有当婚姻质量较低时，社会支持的每个维度（情感、信息和工具性）才具有调节作用。这些发现凸显了社会支持的调节作用因个体情况而异这一事实，因此，符合个体需求的定制化社会支持对新妈妈的心理健康至关重要。
