Research Article
Couple-Level Manifestations of Posttraumatic Stress and Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Relationship Functioning
Table 1
Descriptive statistics for overall sample (
couples).
| | Mothers | Fathers | Within-couple correlation |
| | Individual-level characteristics | | | | | Age | 26.39 (5.70) | 29.23 (7.10) | | | Race/ethnicity | | | | | White | 30.2 (262) | 26.8 (232) | | | Black | 44.5 (386) | 46.4 (402) | | | Latinx | 25.3 (219) | 24.0 (208) | | | Other | — | 2.9 (25) | | | Education | | | | | < HS graduate | 16.3 (141) | 21.0 (182) | | | HS graduate | 38.8 (336) | 39.9 (346) | | | Some college | 24.8 (215) | 14.9 (129) | | | College graduate or more | 19.6 (170) | 16.8 (146) | | | Other/no information | 0.6 (5) | 7.4 (64) | | | Poverty | | | | | ≤100% FPL | 38.8 (336) | 30.9 (257) | | | 100-200% FPL | 27.1 (235) | 21.4 (178) | | | >200% FPL | 34.1 (296) | 47.8 (398) | | | First baby | 44.5 (386) | — | | | Past-year trauma burden | 0.82 (0.96) | 1.07 (1.20) | | | Total PTSD symptom severity | 26.02 (9.79) | 25.69 (9.93) | | | Observed range | 17-79 | 17-72 | | | Relationship quality | 120.59 (16.57) | 122.81 (15.45) | | | Observed range | 48-151 | 47-152 | | | Relationship stress | 1.76 (0.82) | 1.72 (0.76) | | | Observed range | 1-5 | 1-5 | | | Couple-level characteristics | | | Average age | 27.83 (5.96) | | | Minority racial and ethnic couple | 67.8 (588) | | | Committed relationship | 75.5 (655) | | | Highest level of education | | | | < HS graduate | 10.5 (91) | | | HS graduate | 37.9 (329) | | | Some college | 28.0 (243) | | | College graduate or more | 23.4 (203) | | | Highest level of income | | | | ≤100% FPL | 23.4 (203) | | | 100-200% FPL | 25.1 (218) | | | >200% FPL | 51.4 (446) | |
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