TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - The German W-DEQ version B-Factor structure and prediction of posttraumatic stress symptoms six weeks and one year after childbirth JO - Health care for women international A1 - König, Julia SP - 581 EP - 596 VL - 40 IS - 5 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0739-9332 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2019.1583230 ID - ref1 ER -