INCREASED NEUROTICISM AGGRAVATES THE RISK OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS PREGNANT WOMEN
INCREASED NEUROTICISM AGGRAVATES THE RISK OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS PREGNANT WOMEN
Author(s): Magdalena Podolska, Mariola Bidzan , Jacek Podolski , Piotr Pankiewicz, Mikołaj Majkowicz, Olimpia Sipak-Szmigiel Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: NEUROTICISM; RISK OF DEPRESSION; PREGNANT WOMEN
Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper was to present personality traits and the role of personality factors in the pathogenesis of depression, as well as in predicting the incidence of depressive symptoms amongst women in pregnancy. The study involved 134 pregnant women (gestational age between 32 and 40 weeks, 50 ones with perinatal depression symptoms, and 84 controls). Increased neuroticism was revealed a factor aggravating the risk of depressive symptoms during pregnancy (OR=1.23). Pregnant women suffering from prenatal depression differed in their self-assessment of real psychological needs but not with respect to ideal (expected) self-image. These differences demonstrated their lack of self-acceptance. In conclusion, some personality traits (such as neuroticism, introversion, a lower score of openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and self-assessment of real psychological needs are important psychological factors in the pathogenesis of depression, as well as in the prediction of the incidence of depressive symptoms amongst women in pregnancy.
Journal: Studia Psychologica: Theoria et praxis.
- Issue Year: 10/2010
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 53-66
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English