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Examining the Links Between Perceived Impact of Pregnancy, Depressive Symptoms, and Quality of Life During Adolescent Pregnancy: The Buffering Role of Social Support
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The aims of the current study were to examine the indirect effect of the perceived impact of pregnancy on quality of life (QoL) through the severity of depressive symptoms among a sample of pregnant adolescents, and to explore whether adolescents’ satisfaction with support from their mothers (SM) or partners (SP) was a buffer of this effect. Demographic and pregnancy-related data were collected for 395 pregnant adolescents age 12–19 and were controlled for testing the proposed indirect effect. SM and SP were tested as moderators of the links between perceived impact of pregnancy and depressive symptoms and between depressive symptoms and QoL. A computational tool for path analysis-based moderation and mediation analysis as well as their combination was used to test indirect and interaction effects (PROCESS). A significant indirect effect of the perceived impact of pregnancy on QoL through the severity of depressive symptoms was found (0.51, CI = 0.29/0.78). There was no significant direct effect of the perceived impact of pregnancy on QoL after controlling for the severity of depressive symptoms. SM and SP buffered the indirect effect by weakening the association between a negative perception of the impact of pregnancy and higher severity of depressive symptoms. Identifying adolescents with a negative perception of the impact of pregnancy, improving the quality of their relations with their mothers and partners, and promoting satisfactory support from these figures may be extremely important to prevent and treat depressive symptoms and, in so doing, improve adolescents’ QoL during pregnancy.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Epidemiology
Cross-sectional study
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Social support
Young Adult
Pregnancy
Sickness Impact Profile
Severity of illness
Confidence Intervals
Medicine
Humans
Young adult
Path analysis (statistics)
Psychiatry
business.industry
Depression
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Pregnancy Outcome
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Social Support
Models, Theoretical
medicine.disease
Moderation
Cross-Sectional Studies
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Pregnancy in Adolescence
Quality of Life
Regression Analysis
Female
Perception
business
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Portuguese
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....623bdb8e54b68c17c730af72e677fbbb