scholarly journals Self-esteem, narcissism, and stressful life events: Testing for selection and socialization.

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Orth ◽  
Eva C. Luciano
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Testing For Selection

scholarly journals Early Association Factors for Depression Symptoms in Pregnancy: A Comparison between Spanish Women Spontaneously Gestation and with Assisted Reproduction Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 5672
Author(s):  
David Ramiro-Cortijo ◽  
Cristina Soto-Balbuena ◽  
María F. Rodríguez-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Partner Support ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
P Value ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Assisted Reproduction Techniques

Women with assisted reproduction techniques (ART) have a different psychological profile than women with a spontaneous pregnancy. These differences may put the former group at higher risk for depressive symptomatology. Our aim was to determine what sociodemographic factors and psychological variables interact with early depressive symptoms in pregnant women with ART. This is a cross-sectional, non-interventional, and observational study where a total of 324 women were analyzed in the first trimester of pregnancy at the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (Spain). Women completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item Scale, the Resilience inventory, the General concerns (ad hoc scale), the Stressful life events, and the prenatal version of Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised (PDPI-R), including socioeconomic status, pregnancy intendedness, self-esteem, partner support, family support, friends support, marital satisfaction, and life stress. According to our models, women undergoing ART had significantly increased the PHQ-9 scores (β = 6.75 ± 0.74; p-value < 0.001). Being single also increased the PHQ-9 score. Related to the psychological variables, anxiety (β = 0.43 ± 0.06; p-value < 0.001) and stressful life events (β = 0.17 ± 0.06; p-value = 0.003) increased PHQ-9 scores. In contrast, resilience (β = −0.05 ± 0.02; p-value = 0.004), self-esteem (β = −1.21 ± 0.61; p-value = 0.048), and partner support (β = −1.50 ± 0.60; p-value = 0.013) decreased PHQ-9 scores. We concluded that women undergoing ART need interventions to reduce anxiety and stressful life events, and to improve resilience, self-esteem, and emotional partner support to prevent depressive symptomatology during this important phase in their lives.

Neuroticism and self-esteem as indices of the vulnerability to major depression in women

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1101-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
SETH B. ROBERTS ◽  
KENNETH S. KENDLER
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Genetic Correlation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

Background. Neuroticism and self-esteem, two commonly used personality constructs, are thought to reflect a person's underlying vulnerability to major depression. The relative strength of these predictors is not known.Method. Information was gathered on 2163 individual women from an epidemiological sample of female–female twin pairs. Neuroticism was assessed by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and global self-esteem by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Major depression (DSM-III-R criteria) and stressful life events were also assessed. The personality constructs were studied in relation to major depression by logistic regression and structural equation modelling.Results. Both cross-sectionally and prospectively, examined individually, neuroticism was a stronger predictor of risk for major depression than was self-esteem. When examined together, the predictive power of neuroticism remained substantial, while that of self-esteem largely disappeared. The same pattern of findings was obtained when a subset of subjects who had recently experienced stressful life events was analysed. By trivariate twin modelling, we found that the covariation of self-esteem, neuroticism and major depression was due largely to genetic factors. When self-esteem was the ‘upstream’ variable, a substantial genetic correlation remained between neuroticism and major depression. By contrast, when neuroticism was the ‘upstream’ variable, the genetic correlation between self-esteem and major depression disappeared.Conclusions. The personality construct of neuroticism is a substantially better index of a woman's underlying vulnerability to major depression than is self-esteem. These findings suggest that overall emotionality or emotional reactivity to the environment reflects risk for depression better than does global self-concept.

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