Personality and risk for postpartum depressive symptoms

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 539-546

  Iliadis, S I ^a   Koulouris, P ^a   Gingnell, M ^a   Sylven S M ^a   Sundstrom Poromaa I ^a   Ekselius, L ^a   Papadopoulos, F C ^a   Skalkidou, A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mistrust; Neuroticism; Personality; Postpartum depression; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSION SELF RATING SCALE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR; SENSATION SEEKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEVICES; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHERS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84929705453     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-014-0478-8     Document Type: Article

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