The subjective anticipation and evaluation of childbirth and anxiety

Scott-Heyes, Geraldine

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1982.tb01481.x

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“…First, they confirm that women's evaluation of childbirth is multidimensional : no single scale could adequately represent their experience. This casts doubt on the validity of some recent studies in which this has been attempted (Levy & McGee, 1975;Scott-Heyes, 1982;Knight & Thirkettle, 1987).…”

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“…Such results suggest that women's satisfaction with childbirth may be largely independent of its painfulness. It follows that women's subjective experience of childbirth could not be adequately assessed by a single scale, as is often attempted in quantitative studies (Knight & Thirkettle, 1987 ;Levy & McGee, 1975 ;Scott-Heyes, 1982). The alternative would be to use different scales for both satisfaction and painfulness.…”

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Women's anticipation and experience of childbirth: The independence of fulfilment, unpleasantness and pain

Salmon

Miller

Drew

1990

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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Adjectives or phrases used by women in their description of childbirth were identified by interviewing two groups of 10 women, one drawn from an antenatal clinic, the other following delivery of a healthy child. The terms obtained were formed into a questionnaire on which 106 antenatal women described their expectations of childbirth and 82 postnatal women described their experience. Principal components analysis revealed two important findings. First, the ratings were multidimensional; that is, a dimension of fulfillment and achievement was independent of one of emotional feeling. Second, painfulness was not associated with either dimension.

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Women's anticipation and experience of childbirth: The independence of fulfilment, unpleasantness and pain

Salmon

Miller

Drew

1990

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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“…Some studies find that anxiety in pregnancy is related to expectations (e.g. Heaman et al, 1992) whereas other studies find no relationship (Levy & McGee, 1975;Scott-Heyes, 1982). There is also some suggestion that anxiety in pregnancy may be associated with a negative birth experience (Lunenfeld, Rosenthal, Larholt & Insler, 1984).…”

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Women's expectations and experience of birth

Ayers

Pickering

2005

Psychology & Health

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: Expectations of birth 2 ABSTRACTThis was an exploratory study with three aims: (1) The results found that anxiety in pregnancy was associated with expecting less positive emotion during birth, more negative emotion during birth, less control and less support during birth. Expectations were positively related to the birth experience. For example, women who expected high levels of control also experienced high levels of control during birth, although in general the correlation coefficients were low. Some aspects of women's experience were significantly different to their expectations, although these differences were no longer significant when trait anxiety was controlled for. Finally, differences were observed between primiparas and multiparas in both expectations and experience of birth, although primiparas were not always more 'inaccurate' in their expectations. These results are discussed and suggestions for future research made.

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“…Support is likely to increase a mother's sense of infant-and self-care capability and success in relating to the infant (Crnic, Robinson, & Robinson, 1984). Stressors such as lack of control of events and conditions, physical discomfort, and insensitivity of clinicians (Butani & Hodnett, 1980;Entwisle & Doering, 1981) may affect the mental energy a mother has to develop a sense of capability the first few days postpartum (Butani & Hodnett, 1980;Scott-Heyes, 1982).…”

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Early postpartum transition: Progress in maternal identity and role attainment

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Chang³

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Research in Nursing & Health

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Sets of early postpartum transition variables and relationships among them examined in this study were: (a) Maternal attributes (parity, age, education); (b) infant feeding plan (extent of breast-feeding); (c) birthing conditions (supports and stressors during labor and delivery); (d) birthing experience (how well labor and delivery went, usefulness of postpartum learning resources, adequacy of hospital stay); and (e) transition markers (evaluation of parenting and of infant- and self-care capability). Infant feeding plan was related to supports but not to how well labor and delivery went. Whereas preparation for birthing was positively related to how well labor and delivery went, stressors were negatively related. The direct contribution of preparation for birthing to both parenting evaluation and infant- and self-care capability and of supports and usefulness of postpartum resources to self-care capability merits clinical attention to these variables. Research concerning types of birthing experience that may contribute to evaluation of parenting is needed.

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The subjective anticipation and evaluation of childbirth and anxiety

Cited by 14 publications

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Women's anticipation and experience of childbirth: The independence of fulfilment, unpleasantness and pain

Women's anticipation and experience of childbirth: The independence of fulfilment, unpleasantness and pain

Women's expectations and experience of birth

Early postpartum transition: Progress in maternal identity and role attainment

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