Table 2.
Descriptive statistics and zero-order correlations of birth experience and postpartum adjustment variables (Study 1)
| M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mothers | ||||||||||
| 1. Birth experience | 4.79 | 1.02 | (0.90) | 0.38** | 0.32** | 0.24** | 0.60** | 0.18** | 0.24** | 0.19** |
| 2. General well-being | 4.09 | 0.83 | (0.95) | 0.68** | 0.43** | 0.19** | 0.12* | 0.20** | 0.22** | |
| 3. Emotional well-being | 5.17 | 0.52 | (0.93) | 0.53** | 0.13* | 0.22** | 0.31** | 0.28** | ||
| 4. Infant’s well-being | 4.77 A | 0.61 | (0.88) | 0.18** | 0.14* | 0.17** | 0.54** | |||
| Fathers | ||||||||||
| 5. Birth experience | 5.20 | 0.76 | (0.85) | 0.25** | 0.32** | 0.30** | ||||
| 6. General well-being | 4.73 | 0.82 | (0.95) | 0.75** | 0.37** | |||||
| 7. Emotional well-being | 5.30 | 0.50 | (0.96) | 0.36** | ||||||
| 8. Infant’s well-being | 4.74 A | 0.58 | (0.86) |
Note. N varied between 274 and 290. **p < .01, *p < .05. If indexed with A mothers and fathers were not statistically different from each other (p < .01). Reliability (Cronbach’s α) in parentheses.