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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2022.2039864 | DOI Listing |
Policy Insights Behav Brain Sci
December 2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing.
Romantic relationships impact individuals' mental and physical health across the lifespan. The link between relationships and health may be especially intertwined during transitions. Examining three seasons of romantic relationships-dating, the transition to parenthood, and bereavement-links each season with health.
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September 2025
The Child Health Care Service, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden.
Background: The first year of a child's life is essential for promoting a healthy life, and the transition to becoming a parent can be a challenge; parents need to develop confidence in their own capacity to care for their child. The national Child Health Services programme in Sweden offers parental support, both on a universal level and in accordance with the individual family's needs. This study explores parents' experiences of an extended home-visit programme offered through a Family Centre to all first-time parents in a municipality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe birth of a baby is a significant milestone for both parents, marking a major life transition into parenthood. In high-risk situations, such as preterm delivery, this event disrupts functional adaptation and greatly impacts parents' ability to recognize and effectively respond to their newborn's physiological and developmental needs. Positive interactions and sensitive responses to an infant's needs enable parents to foster development, supporting regulatory processes and establishing healthy social interaction patterns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Parental reflective functioning (PRF) emerges during the prenatal period and helps fathers and mothers prepare for the transition to parenthood. Few studies have considered how PRF could support at-risk fathers and their partners across this transition. In a sample of moderate to heavy drinking fathers, an actor-partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM) was used to examine concurrent indirect effects between prenatal psychological symptoms and paternal and maternal PRF through interparental relationship satisfaction while accounting for the interdependence among father-mother dyads.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study examines the evolving experiences of "aloneness" in first-time mothers during their transition to motherhood. While the term is often used to describe new mothers' experiences, it tends to blur distinct yet overlapping constructs such as solitude, loneliness, and social isolation. Study 1 involved qualitative interviews with 22 mothers, revealing three themes: the ambivalent companionship of a baby, the multifaceted nature of post-motherhood aloneness, and a shift in priorities that diminished both the quantity and quality of solitude.
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