Associations between birth-related stressors, social reward responsiveness, and postpartum internalizing symptoms

Key Points

• The study aims to explore how birth-related stressors affect reward processing and internalizing symptoms after childbirth.
• Analyzed dimensions of birth-related stressors
• Utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to assess reward processing
• Examined correlations with postpartum internalizing symptoms
• Findings indicate significant associations between birth-related stressors and reward responsiveness
• ERPs show variability linked to levels of postpartum internalizing symptoms
• Supports the concept that individual differences in reward processing can impact postpartum mental health