Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wilkie, Colleen F.
• Ames, Elinor W.

Titel

The Relationship of Infant Crying to Parental Stress in the Transition to Parenthood

Ist Teil von

• Journal of marriage and family, 1986-08, Vol.48 (3), p.545-550

Ort / Verlag

Minneapolis, Minn: National Council on Family Relations

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Thirty couples with firstborn 6-week-old infants were interviewed concerning their feelings about parenthood. They also completed questionnaires regarding themselves, their spouses, and their babies. Results showed that, although the amount of stress experienced by parents was not great, new parenthood had a greater general impact on women than on men. In contrast, the effects of infant crying were greater on fathers than on mothers. Infant crying was related to mothers rating their infants more negatively, but feeling less inadequate. For fathers, infant crying was associated with greater anxiety, more concern about lifestyle changes, and ratings of themselves and their wives as low in potency.