Abstract
Hospitalization for mental illness during the first years following childbirth can be viewed as a response both to disturbance in social relationships and to greater cumulative life stress. In order to determine the relative contribution of these factors in determining psychiatric impairment, a regression analysis was carried out using samples of mothers recently discharged from mental hospitals and non-psychiatric controls. A combination of stress in a woman's own life, a personality measure of social introversion, rated impairment in social role performance, and reported frequency and intensity of interpersonal contact showed a multiple correlation of 0. 70 with hospitalization. Impairment in role performance proved to be the single most important source of variance associated with hospitalization.
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