0000000000319584
AUTHOR
Doris Staab
Relationship satisfaction can help to maintain the positive effect of childbirth on parental self-esteem
The transition to parenthood is accompanied by declined self-esteem levels, which may be explained by parents’ relationship satisfaction. However, prior research examined self-esteem only shortly before and after childbirth and had no or only unmatched childless respondents as a control group, limiting the possibility to examine long-term adaptive processes and the causal interpretation of the associations. Thus, we used panel data (10 years, 4,075 individuals, and 16,122 observations) to compare self-esteem and relationship satisfaction trajectories of parents with matched childless respondents using propensity score matching. We found a quadratic trajectory for parents’ self-esteem, whic…
Supplemental Material, Supplementary_Materials(SPP) - Relationship Satisfaction Can Help to Maintain the Positive Effect of Childbirth on Parental Self-Esteem
Supplemental Material, Supplementary_Materials(SPP) for Relationship Satisfaction Can Help to Maintain the Positive Effect of Childbirth on Parental Self-Esteem by Mario Wenzel, Doris Staab, Zarah Rowland and Manon A. van Scheppingen in Social Psychological and Personality Science