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Measuring the ups and downs of pregnancy stress

DiPietro, JA, Ghera, MM, Costigan, K, Hawkins, M·2004·Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Despite substantial interest in the effects of stress on pregnancy, few instruments are available to measure pregnancy-specific stressors. Moreover, research has typically focused on the distressing, negative aspects of pregnancy. This report examines the reliability and validity of the Pregnancy Experience Scale (PES), a 41-item scale that measures pregnancy-specific daily hassles and uplifts. The PES was administered to two cohorts of low risk women at 24, 30, and 36 weeks (n = 52) or 32 and 38 weeks (n = 137). Women perceived their pregnancies to be significantly more intensely and frequently uplifting than hassling. Internal scale reliability was high (alpha = 0.91 to 0.95). Frequency and intensity scores for hassles and uplifts were stable over time (r's = 0.56 to 0.83) and patterns of convergent and discriminant validity emerged between the PES and existing measures of general affective intensity, daily stressors, depressive symptoms, and anxiety. These results indicate that (1) failure to measure pregnancy-specific stress will underestimate the degree to which pregnant women experience distress and (2) measurement of only the negative aspects of pregnancy will overestimate distress and fail to portray the degree to which women are psychologically elevated by their pregnancies. Measurement of hassles relative to uplifts may provide the most balanced assessment of pregnancy appraisal.

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Authors: DiPietro, J., Ghera, M., Costigan, K., & Hawkins, M.
Affiliations: University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Johns Hopkins University (US)
ORCID: Costigan, K
Hawkins, M
Venue: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2004-01
Volume: 25
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 189-201
ISSN: 0167-482X (ISSN-L)
1743-8942
DOI: 10.1080/01674820400017830
OpenAlex: W2123199847
Cited by: 198
References: 62
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 7
FWCI: 2.38
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD 27592, R01HD027592)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Pregnancy-related medical research
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords: pregnancy stress, daily hassles, uplift, scale reliability, scale validity, depressive symptoms, anxiety, low-risk pregnant women
MeSH terms: Adult, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Psychology, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, Reproducibility of Results, Cohort Studies

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