What is it about?
Fathers' anxiety symptoms during pregnancy were found to be associated with subsequent paternal stress when the child reached 6 months of age. Additionally, adverse childhood experiences in fathers predicted parenting stress through two separate pathways: one involving anxiety symptoms during pregnancy, and another involving both spousal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and reported spousal disharmony six months after childbirth.
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Why is it important?
The results indicate that paternal symptoms of anxiety and depression during pregnancy, as well as adverse childhood experiences, are predictors of increased paternal stress and more negative perceptions of child behavior at six months postpartum.
Perspectives
Research suggests that a father's adverse childhood experiences may influence his perception of his own baby's behavior.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: DOES FATHERS' PRENATAL MENTAL HEALTH BEAR A RELATIONSHIP TO PARENTING STRESS AT 6 MONTHS?, Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, August 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21739.
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