Relationships of Sex-Role Characteristics and Psychological Adjustment in New Mothers

Bassoff, Evelyn Silten

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“…This is an important substantive issue because we have found, studying two different samples with different measurement instruments, that individual differences are quite stable across the transition to parenthood (Belsky et al, in press; Belsky et al, 1983). Thus, it is quite conceivable that the Bassoff (1984) findings reflect not so much the relationship between sex-typed personality and adjustment following the transition to parenthood as they do the relationship between sex-type personality and general psychological adjustment that predated the arrival of the first child and the coping it necessitates.…”

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“…The current investigation thus attempts to build upon the work of Waldron and Routh (1981) and Bassoff (1984) by addressing the neglected issues of multiple predictors of marital change across the transition to parenthood. More specifically, the interaction of sex-typed personality and change toward a more traditional division of labor are examined in relationship to the socioemotional aspects of marriage.…”

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Sex typing and division of labor as determinants of marital change across the transition to parenthood.

Belsky¹,

Lang²,

Huston³

1986

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

107

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This investigation examines the proposition that wives who describe their personality in ways that deviate from sex stereotypes will become less positive and more negative about their marriage from before to after they become mothers, particularly when the transition to parenthood is accompanied by an increase in the traditionalism of marital roles. Sixty-one couples were studied longitudinally from the last trimester of pregnancy through the third postpartum month. The wives completed the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence & Helmreich, 1978), which measures the extent to which they ascribe personality attributes stereotyped as "masculine" (i.e., instrumental, agentic) and "feminine" (expressive, affectional) to themselves, and several questionnaires assessing the marital relationship at both times of measurement. Results revealed that the more division of labor changed toward traditionalism, the greater the decline in wives' evaluations of the positive aspects of marriage and that changes in wives' evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of marriage can be significantly predicted by the interaction of the wives' expressivity and changes toward increased traditionalism in division of labor. Additional analyses showed that wives who do not ascribe female sex-typed attributes to themselves (relative to those who see themselves in sex-stereotyped ways) are more apt to evaluate their marriage less favorably from before to after parenthood when roles shift toward greater traditionalism.

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Sex typing and division of labor as determinants of marital change across the transition to parenthood.

Belsky¹,

Lang²,

Huston³

1986

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

107

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“…Na pesquisa de Bassoff (1984), os relatos indicaram que mulheres andróginas e tipifi cadas masculinas apresentaram escores menores em estresse psicológico do que as femininas ou indiferenciadas. Uma interação quase signifi cativa entre masculinidade e feminilidade -com efeitos principais não signifi cativos -na dimensão hostilidade de ajustamento deu apoio à noção de que novas mães andróginas são menos hostis do que as tipifi cadas masculinas, femininas ou indiferenciadas.…”

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“…Também inúmeros dados que apóiam a idéia da associação entre papéis sexuais e saúde mental em geral têm sido apresentados (Bassoff, 1984;Bassoff & Glass, 1982;Berthiaume, David, Saucier & Borgeat, 1996;Cook, 1987;Harris & Schwab, 1990;Williams & D'Alessandro, 1994 …”

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Gravidez do primeiro filho: papéis sexuais, ajustamento conjugal e emocional

Hernández

Hutz

2008

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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Palavras-chave: gravidez; papéis sexuais; transição para a parentalidade; ajustamento conjugal; ajustamento emocional/ neuroticismo. First Child Pregnancy: Sex Roles, Marital and Emotional AdjustmentABSTRACT -The present investigation examined the relationship between sexual roles and pregnant women marital and emotional adjustment on the transition to parenthood. A hundred thirty three women participants were recruited from the public health care network in southern Brazil. The participants lived together with their partners and they were waiting for their fi rst son or daughter. The tests used were the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (Bem, 1974), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976) and the Neuroticism Factor Scale (Hutz & Nunes, 2001). The data collection was individual and, in several cases, they fi ll the instruments in an interviewer presence. In a small amount of cases, participants responded to the instruments at home and later they returned them to the researcher. The results showed signifi cant relationships between sex roles and marital adjustment. The results are discussed based on gender theories and on the international research on the transition to parenthood results.

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“…This idea is consistent with other studies that found higher levels of depressive symptomatology to be related to lower scores on masculinity in measures of sex role orientation (Nezu & Nezu, 1987; O'Heron & Orlofsky, 1987; Pidano & Tennen, 1985; Stoppard & Paisley, 1987; Whitley, 1984). Likewise, Bassoff (1984) found that masculinity was the functional sex role component that characterized psychological adjustment in new mothers. To better understand the complexities of the relation between depressive symptomatology and sex role traditionalism in the marital relationship, both maternal and paternal sex role attitudes were assessed during the third trimester of pregnancy and at 9 months infant age.…”

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Maternal depressive symptomatology over the transition to parenthood: Assessing the influence of marital satisfaction and marital sex role traditionalism.

Hock¹,

Schirtzinger²,

Lutz³

et al. 1995

Journal of Family Psychology

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This longitudinal study examined the importance of the marital context in predicting maternal depressive symptomatology, as assessed with marital satisfaction and the endorsement of traditional sex role beliefs about the marriage, in 142 first-time mothers and their husbands or partners. Data were collected during pregnancy and at 6 weeks and 9 months infant age. Maternal and paternal reports about the marriage were assessed, and analyses were done on the way in which marital context scores interacted with earlier and concurrent levels of maternal depressive symptomatology. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that the final model explained 57% of the variance; marital context contributed 18% of the variance beyond that of earlier symptom levels in predicting mothers' depressive symptoms 9 months after the birth of the first child.The transition to motherhood, from late pregnancy through the infant's first few months, is a time that requires psychological reorganization and adaptation (Antonucci &

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Relationships of Sex-Role Characteristics and Psychological Adjustment in New Mothers

Cited by 5 publications

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Sex typing and division of labor as determinants of marital change across the transition to parenthood.

Sex typing and division of labor as determinants of marital change across the transition to parenthood.

Gravidez do primeiro filho: papéis sexuais, ajustamento conjugal e emocional

Maternal depressive symptomatology over the transition to parenthood: Assessing the influence of marital satisfaction and marital sex role traditionalism.

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