Volume 4 - Nº 1
- Editorial
- Interdisciplinaridade no ensino médico
- Da história de Maria à memória de um encontro
- Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational Style. Construct validity: relationship with a Swedish Mood Adjective Check List – MACL
- Vision-targeted quality of life under different degrees of visual impairment
- The psychoanalytic voyage of a breast-cancer patient
- Emotional inhibition and physical health: fact or fiction?
- Attachment representation and affect regulation. Current findings of attachment research and their relevance for psychosomatic medicine
- response to Dr. Elizabeth Loftus' presentation on false memories and false beliefs – with particular reference to her study on dream interpretation
- The psychological interpretation of clinical pathology in pregnancy: a continuity hypothesis
- Psychological variables in pregnancy: does age matter? An exploratory study
- Application of narrative therapy to anorexia nervosa: a study case
- Evaluation of psychoneuroimmunological interactions in HIV infected patients
- Knowing the amygdala: its contribution to psychiatric disorders
- Recensão de Livros
- Publicações Recebidas na Redacção
- Reuniões Científicas • Calendário
Psychological variables in pregnancy: does age matter? An exploratory study
Graça Pereira, Vera Ramalho, Pedro Dias
We are assisting in our days to a postponing of pregnancy to a later period of life. This paper describes an exploratory study on the effects of age on important psychological variables in pregnancy. The sample is composed of two groups of pregnant women: above and below 35 years, and compared how these women differed on maternal adjustment, marital satisfaction and psychological morbidity. Husbands/ partners of these women were also included in the sample and a comparison between the couple was also assessed on the first two variables.
Results showed that younger women were better adjusted and had higher marital satisfaction. No differences were reported in terms of psychological morbidity.
Men reported being better adjusted than their partners on attitudes towards pregnancy. Differences on whether the pregnancy was planned and number of children were also assessed.
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