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Stability and Change in Self-Esteem During the Transition to Parenthood

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Bleidorn, Wiebke, Buyukcan-Tetik, Asuman, Schwaba, Ted, van Scheppingen, Manon A., Denissen, Jaap J. A., Finkenauer, Catrin·2016·Social Psychological and Personality Science
DOI 10.1177/1948550616646428
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The present longitudinal study used data from 187 newlywed couples to examine the impact of the birth of the first child on self-esteem over the course of the first 5 years of marriage. Results suggest that the birth of the first child is associated with changes in parents’ (especially mothers’) self-esteem. For the average parent, these changes were negative with sudden declines in self-esteem in the year after childbirth and continuing gradual decreases throughout the remaining years of the study. A comparison group of couples who did not have children during the research period showed no changes in self-esteem, suggesting that the results seen in the parent sample may indeed be due to the birth of the first child. Discussion focuses on the implications of the results for theory and research on the development of the self-esteem.

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  • Change in response to life events is often non-linear or discontinuous.

    “research on change in other personality-relevant characteristics such as subjective well-being (e.g., Lucas, 2007; Luhmann et al., 2012) or self-esteem (Bleidorn et al., 2016; Chung, Robins, Trzesniewski, Noftle, Roberts, & Widaman, 2013) has shown that change in response to life events is often non-linear or discontinuous.”

    From Life Events and Personality Trait Change. (2018) · cites this paper as Bleidorn et al., 2016

  • The birth of a child is associated with sudden and oftentimes drastic changes in new parents' behavior, thoughts, and feelings, which may have both sudden and continuous effects on their personality.

    “Also, the birth of a child is associated with sudden and oftentimes drastic changes in new parents' behavior, thoughts, and feelings, which may have both sudden and continuous effects on their personality”

    From Life Events and Personality Trait Change. (2018) · cites this paper as Bleidorn et al., 2016

  • Some studies but not all reported significant individual differences in self-esteem change trajectories during the education-to-work transition.

    “Some studies (e.g., Wagner, Lüdtke, et al., 2013) but not all (Bleidorn et al., 2016) reported significant individual differences in change trajectories.”

    From Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework (2022) · cites this paper as Bleidorn et al., 2016

  • For parenthood, most studies reported declines in self-esteem.

    “For parenthood, most studies reported declines (Bleidorn et al., 2016;Chen et al., 2016;van Scheppingen et al., 2018).”

    From Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework (2022) · cites this paper as Bleidorn et al., 2016

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Authors
Bleidorn, W., Buyukcan-Tetik, A., Schwaba, T., van Scheppingen, M. A., Denissen, J. J. A., & Finkenauer, C.
Affiliations
  • Tilburg University (NL)
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Bleidorn, Wiebke
ORCID
Venue
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2016-06-23
Volume
7
Issue
6
Pages
560-569
ISSN
  • 1948-5506 (ISSN-L)
  • 1948-5514
DOI
10.1177/1948550616646428
OpenAlex
W2345310204
Cited by
95
References
10
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
17.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science (publishedVersion)
  • Tilburg University Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • Sabanci University (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords
self-esteem, transition to parenthood, newlyweds, mothers, fathers, parenthood

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