Transition to Parenthood: Change in Couple Daily Stress Processes & Mental Healt

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请概述了在过渡到为人父母的夫妇之间的日常压力过程和情绪健康的探索性研究。该研究将纵向研究日常压力源，夫妇功能和抑郁/焦虑之间的联系，在一项随机试验的背景下，以前显示，以减少产妇抑郁症和加强父母间的关系。最近的调查丰富了我们对压力破坏身体，情绪和精神健康的日常过程的理解;然而，拟议的研究将是第一个使用每日日记方法研究夫妻在向父母过渡期间的日常生活的项目之一。这项调查具有重大的潜在意义，因为早期为人父母的紧张时期正好是儿童最脆弱和需要温暖、促进安全的家庭环境的时期。这项研究的结果将为更深入的RO 1应用提供信息，这将以更全面和深入的方式解决这里探讨的问题。这种研究提供了产生关于基本过程和干预机制的新的重要知识的潜力，这些知识对于完善夫妇层面的干预措施将是宝贵的。公共卫生相关性：该项目探讨了夫妻之间的日常压力过程与全球心理健康和夫妻关系质量之间的联系。对许多夫妇来说，向父母身份的过渡是一个紧张的时期，导致关系满意度下降，新父母的抑郁和焦虑程度增加。了解导致这些问题的日常过程是为新父母改进预防计划的重要前提。该项目将被嵌入到这样一个预防计划的一个更大的预防试验中，并将探讨干预对关系质量和心理健康的影响是否是由于干预对日常压力过程的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application outlines an exploratory study of daily stress processes and emotional well-being among couples across the transition to parenthood. The study will longitudinally examine links between daily stressors, couple functioning, and depression/anxiety in the context of a randomized trial of an intervention previously shown to reduce maternal depression and enhance inter-parental relations. Recent investigations have enriched our understanding of the day-to-day processes through which stress disrupts physical, emotional, and mental well-being; however, the proposed study would be one of the first projects using daily diary methods to study the daily lives of couples during the transition to parenthood. This investigation is of great potential significance because the stressful period of early parenthood coincides with the period of children's greatest vulnerability and need for a warm, security- promoting family context. The findings of this study will inform a more intensive RO1 application, which will address the issues explored here in a more comprehensive and intensive manner. Such research offers the potential to yield new and important knowledge about both basic processes and intervention mechanisms that will be valuable in refining couple-level interventions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project explores the links between daily stress processes among couples and global mental health and couple relationship quality across the transition to parenthood. The transition to parenthood is a stressful period for many couples, leading to declines in levels of relationship satisfaction and increases in levels of depression and anxiety among new parents. Understanding the daily processes that contribute to these problems is an important precursor of refining prevention programs for new parents. This project will be embedded in a larger prevention trial of such a prevention program, and will also explore whether intervention impact on relationship quality and mental health is due to intervention effects on daily stress processes.