Pink cloud or baby blues? The role of emotion regulation and attachment in first-time parents’ response to stress during the transition to parenthood. Ghent University
The birth of a child is an important and potentially challenging life transition. For some parents, the transition goes along with lowered psychosocial well-being. One of the most proximal predictors for well-being is parental stress. This project investigates the role of emotion regulation in experienced stress. Moreover, attachment relationships are investigated with regard to interindividual differences in postnatal emotion regulation.