Susan Garthus-Niegel

Dados Biográficos

ID5747711
NOMESusan Garthus-Niegel
PRENOMESSusan
SOBRENOMEGarthus-Niegel
ASSINATURAGARTHUS-NIEGEL S
AFILIAÇÕESNorwegian Institute of Public Health
ORCID0000-0002-7472-674X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Role of Personality in Dyadic Associations Between Stress and Relationship Satisfaction

    Open AccessSaskia Baumgardt, Tilmann Von Soest et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2026Referências: 88

    Objective This study investigated whether the associations of own and partner intra‐ and extradyadic stress with relationship satisfaction vary based on both partners' Big Five personality traits among parents. Background Previous research has shown that relationship satisfaction during parenthood often decreases, and increased stress is linked to lower relationship satisfaction; yet these associations differ widely between individuals. Personali…

  • A brief international screening tool for traumatic birth and childbirth-related PTSD

    Open AccessSusan Ayer, Dan Brooks Wright et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Screening to identify traumatic births and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD) is critical for reducing the global burden of maternal mental health challenges. Despite this, no brief, validated tools exist for international use. This study therefore developed and validated a short version of the City Birth Trauma Scale (City BiTS) to provide a brief, globally relevant screening tool. METHODS: The City BiTS-Sh…

  • German Parents Attaining Intrapersonal Work-Family Balance While Implementing the 50/50-Split-Model with Their Partners

    Open AccessRonja Schaber, Tirza Patella et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2025

    Work-family balance (WFB) is attained if parents combine work and family roles aligned with their values. For an egalitarian parent aiming to implement a 50/50-split-model, this means sharing paid work, childcare, and housework equally with their partner (involvement balance), performing well in all roles (effective balance), while having positive emotions (emotional balance). This is difficult since work and family are competing for time and att…

  • The impact of childhood maltreatment on paternal antenatal bonding

    Open AccessEleonora Bevacqua, Leonardo Fazio et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2025

    The findings suggest that emotional neglect and abuse during childhood may hinder expectant fathers' emotional bonding with their unborn child by making them more vulnerable to antenatal depression. Emotional neglect, in particular, emerged as a significant risk factor. These results emphasise the importance of screening expectant fathers for early adversity and depressive symptoms, in order to support paternal engagement and infant well-being

  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the German version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)

    Open AccessLara Seefeld, Amera Mojahed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Up to one third of women are dissatisfied with their birth experience. A negative birth experience can have detrimental outcomes, making an early detection of dissatisfaction with the birth experience very important. The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a multi-dimensional measure of birth satisfaction, which has been translated into several languages. The current study aimed to translate and validate a German version of the BSS-R (DE-…

  • Prepartum working conditions predict mental health symptoms 14 months postpartum in first-time mothers and their partners – results of the prospective cohort study “DREAM”

    Open AccessLydia Rihm, Jakob Waibel et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our study demonstrates that adverse working conditions are important risk factors for the adjustment of parents in the transition to parenthood, requiring more attention from research and practice. Precarious employment and abusive supervision appear to be particularly important factors affecting new parents' mental health. Future research should investigate the mechanisms behind these variables, including comparisons between mothers and their pa…

  • Service preferences among postpartum women (non-)affected by different types of intimate partner violence

    Open AccessLaura M Hausmann, Lara Seefeld et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The present results indicate that services were rated less likely to be used by postpartum women affected by IPV. Potential barriers which lead to these ratings need to be investigated. Efforts should be made to increase awareness of IPV and the beneficial effects of support

  • Support preferences among women with and without postpartum depression and anxiety disorder

    Open AccessVanessa Zieß, Lara Seefeld et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This study provides unique insight into postpartum women's preferences for various services and delivery modes. Results showed that women differ in their preferences for services depending on their symptoms. This should be considered when making referrals, and postpartum support should be better tailored to mothers' wishes and needs to improve help-seeking behavior and ultimately postpartum mental health

  • Practicable strategies parents can apply in their daily routine to successfully implement the 50/50-split-model of paid work, childcare, and housework

    Open AccessRonja Schaber, Josefine Simm et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Parents can use the success strategies relatively independently of external circumstances. This behavioral perspective extends prior theories, which have focused on explaining unequal gender role distributions with external circumstances. A behavioral perspective can be a gateway to assist more parents to pioneer in implementing the 50/50-split-model, which might in turn lead to a healthier and more satisfied public population

  • Mode of birth and DNA methylation at birth, in childhood, and in adolescence

    Isabel Jaramillo, Luisa Bergunde et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Mode of birth has been linked to offspring health. Changes in DNA methylation (DNAm) may represent a potential mechanism; however, findings are heterogeneous and limited to early infancy. This preregistered study examined whether mode of birth (vaginal birth compared with elective or emergency cesarean section) affects DNAm at birth, in childhood, and adolescence and whether these effects are modified by the postnatal care environment, specifical…

  • Psychosocial work stress and parent-child bonding during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessMirjam I Koerber, Judith Mack et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    The results of this study during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Germany highlight the importance of prevention as well as intervention measures in relation to psychosocial work stress that may play a debilitating role in the context of family relationships. In addition, the results suggest that both employers and employees should be made aware of the importance of psychosocial work stress, as it can have a negative impact on mental health, which …

  • The Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLinda Engelhardt, Judith Mack et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2023Referências: 58

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, working parents have been faced with a double burden by struggling to satisfy their children’s needs as well as dealing with altered working requirements at the same time. In the unprecedented context of a pandemic, the present study extends the existing literature to investigate the association between work-privacy-conflict (WPC) and parent-child-bonding in families with children aged 0-34 months old. Additionally, …

  • Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the Arab Countries

    Open AccessAmera Mojahed, Nada Alaidarous et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2022

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) profoundly damages physical, sexual, reproductive, and psychological health, as well as social well-being of individuals and families. We sought in this systematic review to examine the risk factors according to the integrative ecological theoretical framework for IPV for women living in the Arab countries. We searched Embase, PubMed, PsycINFO, and SCOPUS, supplemented by hand searching of reference lists. A resear…

  • Prospective Associations of Lifetime Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Birth-Related Traumatization With Maternal and Infant Outcomes

    Open AccessJulia Martini, Eva Asselmann et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Women with lifetime PTSD and/or birth related traumatization should be closely monitored and supported. They may benefit from early targeted interventions to prevent traumatic birth experience, an escalation of psychopathology during the peripartum period, and adverse infant outcomes, which in turn may prevent transgenerational transmission of trauma in the long term

  • Preferences and Barriers to Counseling for and Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Postpartum Women

    Open AccessLara Seefeld, Amera Mojahed et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    The cross-sectional study INVITE ( IN timate partner VI olence care and T reatment pr E ferences in postpartum women) aims to examine treatment and counseling preferences and barriers in relation to the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV), depression and anxiety, and (childbirth-related) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among postpartum women in Dresden, Germany. Currently, the INVITE study consists of an interim sample of N = 1,787…

  • Birth Experience Mediates the Association Between Fear of Childbirth and Mother-Child-Bonding Up to 14 Months Postpartum

    Open AccessLara Seefeld, Victoria Weise et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Findings reveal two targets for peripartum interventions for women at risk for poor mother-child-bonding, namely the implementation of FOC screenings during pregnancy, and birth experience as mediating factor between FOC and mother-child-bonding. Focusing on the mother's subjective birth experience could aid to identify women at risk for impaired bonding who might need additional support

  • Personality and Peripartum Changes in Perceived Social Support

    Open AccessEva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Particularly highly introverted parents might profit from targeted social support interventions

  • Early Abusive Relationships–Influence of Different Maltreatment Types on Postpartum Psychopathology and Mother-Infant Bonding in a Clinical Sample

    Open AccessJulia Frohberg, Antje Bittner et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Postpartum psychopathology is a well-documented risk factor for impaired mother-infant bonding and thus child development. Increasingly, the focus of research in this area lies on maternal adverse childhood experiences that mothers bring into the relationship with their own baby, especially regarding the possible intergenerational transmission of traumatic experiences. Several studies showed that there is no direct link between child maltreatment…

  • The impact of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms on child development and the mediating role of the parent–child relationship

    Open AccessSophie Blum, Judith Mack et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Our results suggest that negative effects on the parent-child relationship and child development may only become apparent in full-blown postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder. Given the differential impact on specific developmental domains, our findings also suggest that it is crucial to consider both parents in clinical practice as well as in future research, rather than focusing only on the mother-child dyad

  • Mental health of working parents during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessStephanie Brym, Judith Mack et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The results highlight the need for measures to reduce psychosocial work stressors such as WPC and ERI during the COVID-19 pandemic on the one hand and to promote resilience on the other hand. The findings partially support the potential protective role of resilience buffering the association between psychosocial stress and mental health in working parents. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm this effect

  • Assessment of Childbirth-Related PTSD

    Open AccessTobias Weigl, Franziska Marie Lea Beck-Hiestermann et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: About 3-4% of women in community samples suffer from childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Surprisingly, the recently developed City Birth Trauma Scale (City BiTS) was the first diagnostic tool for childbirth-related PTSD covering DSM-5 criteria for PTSD. Since no questionnaire on childbirth-related PTSD is available in German, we aimed to validate a German translation of the City BiTS and to provide information on …

  • Associations of Partnership Quality and Father-to-Child Attachment During the Peripartum Period. A Prospective-Longitudinal Study in Expectant Fathers

    Open AccessSusanne Knappe, Johanna Petzoldt et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: During the transition to parenthood, a complex network of relationships unfolds between father, mother and the child. Expectant parents begin bonding with their unborn child, with this antenatal process supposedly being predictive for later postnatal attachment and child mental health. At the same time, couples may experience a change in partnership quality. While the majority of previous studies focused on associations between psycho…

  • Nobody Listened”. Mothers’ Experiences and Needs Regarding Professional Support Prior to Their Admission to an Infant Mental Health Day Clinic

    Open AccessTinne Nuyts, Sarah Van Haeken et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Challenges during the perinatal period can lead to maternal distress, negatively affecting mother-infant interaction. This study aims to retrospectively explore the experiences and needs regarding professional support of mothers with difficulties in mother-infant interaction prior to their admission to an infant mental health day clinic. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 mothers who had accessed an infant mental health da…

  • Predictors and Changes in Paternal Perinatal Depression Profiles—Insights From the DREAM Study

    Open AccessSusan Garthus-Niegel, Andreas Staudt et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    In contrast to the large body of research on maternal perinatal depression, paternal perinatal mental health has received little attention; and longitudinal studies on paternal perinatal depression, following (expectant) fathers over time, are exceedingly rare. This population-based study aimed to (1) estimate prevalence rates of perinatal depression symptoms among German (expectant) fathers, (2) identify differential profiles of perinatal depres…

  • Parental Birth-Related PTSD Symptoms and Bonding in the Early Postpartum Period

    Open AccessSuzannah Stuijfzand, Susan Garthus-Niegel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    The parent-infant bond following childbirth is an important facilitator of optimal infant development. So far, research has mainly focused on mother-infant bonding. Data on fathers are still sparse. Parental mental health, such as posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSD), may influence mother-infant relations and/or interactions. There is evidence that both parents can experience PTSD symptoms following childbirth (PTSD-CB). The aim of this study is …