Psychological science on pregnancy: Stress processes, biopsychosocial models, and emerging research issues

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2011, Pages 531-558

  Schetter, Christine Dunkel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coping and resilience; low birth weight; pregnancy anxiety; prenatal stress; preterm birth; social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78650974891     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.031809.130727     Document Type: Article

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