Citation

König J. Health Care Women Int. 2019; 40(5): 581-596.

Affiliation

a Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology , Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , Eichstätt , Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07399332.2019.1583230

PMID

30901296

Abstract

The Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire is a frequently used measure in the context of childbirth. There are two versions with identical items for use during pregnancy (version A, fear of childbirth) and postpartum (version B, subjective experience) respectively. The original authors report that the measure is unidimensional, but since, very different factor structures have been found with different language versions. In this study, I tested the previously found factor structures in a sample of 338 German new mothers with confirmatory factor analysis. As none showed an adequate fit, I conducted an exploratory factor analysis, which yielded six factors with satisfactory internal consistencies.

Language: en