Together Forever? Romantic Relationship Characteristics and Prenatal Health Behaviors

Autor/in	Kimbro, Rachel Tolbert
Titel	Together Forever? Romantic Relationship Characteristics and Prenatal Health Behaviors
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 70 (2008) 3, S.745-757 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00518.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Mothers; Health Behavior; Interpersonal Relationship; Marriage; Prenatal Care; Anxiety + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ehe; Pränatale Versorgung; Angst
Abstract	Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Data (N = 4,871), this paper examines why relationship status matters for prenatal health behaviors. The paper argues that a mother's potential investments in her child's health are conditioned by socioeconomic and interpersonal resources, including the quality of her relationship with the child's father. Mothers in strained relationships may experience more stress, which is associated with poor prenatal health behaviors. Results show that married mothers exhibit the healthiest prenatal behaviors and that relationship characteristics and dynamics measures, including physical abuse and relationship conflict, predict poor prenatal health behaviors above and beyond confounding factors. In addition, these relationship characteristics explain some of the advantage in prenatal health behaviors married mothers have over unmarried mothers. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10