@article{ref1,
title="Longitudinal relations between childhood maltreatment, maltreatment-specific shame, and postpartum psychopathology",
journal="Child maltreatment",
year="2018",
author="Menke, Rena A. and Morelen, Diana and Simon, Valerie A. and Rosenblum, Katherine Lisa and Muzik, Maria",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="44-53",
abstract="The persistence of shame-based reactions to child maltreatment (CM) has been associated with poor posttraumatic adjustment. Despite evidence that the postpartum period is a vulnerable time for women with CM histories, little is known about the consequences of maltreatment-specific (MS) shame for postpartum functioning. The current study examined individual differences in MS shame among a sample of women during the postpartum period ( n = 100) as well as prospective relations from MS shame to postpartum psychopathology at 6-, 12-, 15-, and 18-month postpartum. Linear growth curve (LGC) analyses showed that MS shame predicted higher levels of depression symptoms but not post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms at all time points whereas path analyses showed that shame mediated the relations from multi-maltreatment to both depression and PTSD symptoms at all time points. <br><br>RESULTS point to the long-term consequences of MS shame during postpartum and the importance of attending to shame in clinical care of maltreatment survivors who present with postpartum psychopathology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-5595",
doi="10.1177/1077559517720070",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559517720070"
}