Table 3.

Spearman’s correlations of relationships between the IES-R-J-PWV and the PTGI-X-J-PWV

	IES-R-J-PWV
	Total		F1: Difficulty controlling feelings for childbirth experience		F2: Intrusion symptoms of childbirth experience		F3: Avoidance and dissociative symptoms for childbirth experience		F4: Escape behavior from childbirth experience
PTGI-X-J-PWV	rs	p	rs	p	rs	p	rs	p	rs	p
Total (22-item)	0.18	<0.001	0.16	<0.001	0.22	<0.001	0.03	0.502	–0.01	0.870
F1: Strength as mothers	0.12	0.006	0.10	0.028	0.16	<0.001	0.02	0.664	0.00	0.938
F2: Spiritual change as mothers	0.25	<0.001	0.19	<0.001	0.28	<0.001	0.05	0.299	0.01	0.796
F3: New possibilities as mothers and appreciation of life	0.16	<0.001	0.16	<0.001	0.18	<0.001	0.05	0.310	–0.03	0.458
F4: Relating to others as mothers	0.12	0.009	0.09	0.035	0.15	0.001	–0.01	0.821	–0.03	0.564

PTGI-X-J-PWV: Postpartum Women Version of the Expanded Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Japanese Version

IES-R-J-PWV: Postnatal Women Version of the Japanese-language Version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised