The study raised some serious concerns about postpartum depression’s effects as it had profound negative effects on the mother and even worse effect on the children. Postpartum depression has also been associated with a rise in suicidal tendencies and in attempts to harm the child. The study investigated nearly 300 women with postpartum depression and compared them to healthy controls. Not only did it find that postpartum depression is common and can be traced to things like the mother’s dissatisfaction with her partner, an unsupportive partner, and the lack of additional support (all of which my interviewee experienced), but it also found that mothers who had avoidant attachment themselves tended to experience postpartum depression more than those who did not. This once again shows how avoidant attachment can perpetuate itself …show more content…
They found that factors such as the gender of an infant (male), the mother 's avoidant attachment, and the severity of her postpartum depression symptoms were associated with very ineffective parenting self-efficacy. Remarkably, this also describes my interviewee. The study also demonstrated that low parenting self-efficacy could be very effectively improved by brief but very focused and intensive intervention to help mothers cope better and handle their symptoms better. Sadly, my interviewee was not given such interventions that could have helped. This study also shows that she had major risk factors for developing low parenting self-efficacy levels, and also illustrates how avoidant attachment can be passed across