BACKGROUND: While the association between anxiety and postpartum depression is well known, few studies have investigated the relationship between these two states and parenting stress.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Maternal anxiety versus depressive disorders: specific relations to infants' crying, feeding and sleeping problems (2015) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Maternal depression has been associated with excessive infant crying, feeding and sleeping problems, but the specificity of maternal depression, as compared with maternal anxiety remains unclear and manifest disorders prior to pregnancy have been widely neglected.

  Keywords: maternal depression background associated excessive infant crying feeding sleeping problems specificity compared anxiety remains unclear
• Distinguishing healthy adults from people with social anxiety disorder: Evidence for the value of experiential avoidance and positive emotions in everyday social interactions. (2013) · doi

  Despite the increased attention that researchers have paid to social anxiety disorder (SAD), compared with other anxiety and mood disorders, relatively little is known about the emotional and social factors that distinguish individuals who meet diagnostic criteria from those who do not.

  Keywords: social anxiety despite increased attention researchers paid disorder compared mood disorders relatively little known emotional
• Symptoms of social anxiety, depression, and stress in parents of children with social anxiety disorder (2018) · doi

  OBJECTIVES: It has been suggested that elevated maternal social anxiety may play a disorder-specific role in maintaining childhood social anxiety disorder (SAD), but few studies have examined whether mothers of children with SAD are more socially anxious than mothers of children with other anxiety disorders (ANX).

  Keywords: anxiety social disorder mothers children objectives elevated maternal play specific role maintaining childhood examined whether
• Factors impacting the experience of empathic distress in social anxiety: a path analysis approach (2021) · doi

  Previous work on socially anxious individuals has shown mixed results, consistent with a model of social anxiety symptomatology characterized by increased personal distress in empathy eliciting situations, which is driven by emotional dysregulation.

  Keywords: previous socially anxious individuals mixed consistent model social anxiety symptomatology characterized increased personal distress empathy
• Mother-Infant Emotion Regulation at Three Months: The Role of Maternal Anxiety, Depression and Parenting Stress (2016) · doi

  BACKGROUND: While the association between anxiety and postpartum depression is well known, few studies have investigated the relationship between these two states and parenting stress.

  Keywords: background association anxiety postpartum depression well known investigated relationship states parenting stress
• Social Anxiety, Affect, Cortisol Response and Performance on a Speech Task (2015) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Social anxiety is characterized by increased emotional reactivity to social stimuli, but results of studies focusing on affective reactions of socially anxious subjects in the situation of social exposition are inconclusive, especially in the case of endocrinological measures of affect.

  Keywords: social background anxiety characterized increased emotional reactivity stimuli focusing affective reactions socially anxious subjects situation
• Psychosocial Predictors of Prenatal Anxiety (2005) · doi

  To address this critical gap in the literature, this study investigates a variety of factors that may contribute to prenatal anxiety, including mastery, attitudes toward the pregnancy, social support, life events, and demographic factors.

  Keywords: factors address critical literature investigates variety contribute prenatal anxiety including mastery attitudes toward pregnancy social
• Associations of maternal and paternal antenatal mood with offspring anxiety disorder at age 18 years (2015) · doi

  OBJECTIVE: Maternal antenatal depression and anxiety are associated with increased risk of childhood behavioural and emotional problems in offspring; it remains unclear to what extent this is due to a maternal biological impact on foetal development.

  Keywords: maternal objective antenatal depression anxiety associated increased risk childhood behavioural emotional problems offspring remains unclear