“I keep it to myself”: A qualitative meta‐interpretive synthesis of experiences of postpartum depression among marginalised women

D Maxwell, SR Robinson… - Health & social care in the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a significant public health concern due to the physical,
emotional, economic, and life course outcomes. Rates of PPD are significantly higher for …

Dread and solace: Talking about perinatal mental health

S Law, I Ormel, S Babinski, D Plett… - … Journal of Mental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Perinatal mental health issues are a global public health challenge. Worldwide, it is
estimated that 10% of pregnant women, and 13% of women who have just given birth …

Childfree and “bingoed”: A relational dialectics theory analysis of meaning creation in online narratives about voluntary childlessness

EA Hintz, CL Brown - Communication Monographs, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We utilize RDT 2.0 to analyze 424 narrative accounts by voluntarily childless (“childfree”)
Reddit users of bingo-response interactions to explore how discourse constrains and …

Pregnancy Decision Making for Women With Mental Health Conditions: The Roles of Distress, Lay Beliefs, and Self-Efficacy

EM Klann, YJ Wong - Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Millions of people face unintended pregnancy each year, including thousands who are living
with a mental health disorder, and must decide to terminate the pregnancy, become a …

“I hate all the children, especially mine”: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents

EA Hintz, KM Scharp - Journal of Social and Personal …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT), we analyzed 85 first-person testimonials of
parental regret written by users of the/r/childfree subreddit. We interrogated how competing …

The meaning of misinformation and those who correct it: An extension of relational dialectics theory

P Malhotra, K Scharp, L Thomas - Journal of Social and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
What misinformation means and what it means to be someone who corrects it is socially
contested, especially in interpersonal contexts where politeness expectations complicate …

Social comparison and emotion across social networking sites for mothers

TM De los Santos, LM Amaro… - Communication Reports, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary mothers use social networking sites to seek information, compare themselves
to other mothers, assess their performance, and express emotions. This content analysis …

Making sense of dissatisfaction during the transition to motherhood through relational dialectics theory

V Cronin-Fisher, ES Parcell - Journal of Family Communication, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Motherhood is a complicated experience as well as concept in US society, and while several
notions of motherhood circulate in US culture, they are not equally accepted. Their unequal …

Making meaning of the parent–child relationship: A dialogic analysis of parent-initiated estrangement narratives

KM Scharp, LJ Thomas - Journal of Family Communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study employs relational dialectics theory to explore the meaning of the parent–child
relationship from the perspective of parents who distanced themselves from their children …

“Only mother is the best in the world”: Maternal guilt, migrant motherhood, and changing ideologies of childrearing in China

M Li - Journal of Family Communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
China's childrearing culture has undergone dramatic transformations in recent decades,
redefining ideals of childrearing in ways that relegate rural-to-urban migrant mothers to a …