The role of maternal emotional cognitive strategies and newborn gender satisfaction in the postpartum depression in the primiparous women

The Postpartum depression has a negative effect on the infant’s developmental and behavioral performance, mother-child relationship and mother‘s health, and its etiology is also very complicated. This study was conducted to investigate the role of maternal emotional cognitive strategies and newborn gender preference in the postpartum depression in primiparous women. This descriptive-correlational study was performed on 205 primiparous women referring to health centers in Kerman city the center of Kerman province of Iran from 1April to 31 June 2015. Primiparous women according to presence (n=103) or absence (n=102) of postpartum depression (PPD The results showed positive cognitive strategies including acceptance, positive re-focus and re-focus on planning have a negative relationship with the postpartum depression (P0.05). According to the results of this study, postpartum depression can be predicted by emotional regulation cognitive strategies.