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Reaction and Adaptation to the Birth of a Child: A Couple-Level Analysis
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Dyrdal, Gunvor Marie; Lucas, Richard E. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The present study explored how life satisfaction changes before and after childbirth among first-time parents from a nationally representative, longitudinal study of Germans. Life satisfaction increased before pregnancy to a peak just after birth and then returned to the baseline level within 2 years postpartum. The 2 members of the same couple…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Birth, Life Satisfaction, Developmental Psychology