Postnatal depression, infant sex, and birth complications

Data used in the analysis presented in Myers, S. and Johns, S.E. (2019). Male infants and birth complications are associated with increased incidence of postnatal depression. Social Science & Medicine 220: 56-64. The data reflects the complete reproductive histories of post-menopausal women collected by retrospective survey. Respondents reported details about every birth they had experienced and were assessed on a number of demographic and psychological measures. Valid responses from 306 women were received. Most women did the majority of their childrearing in the UK (74.7%), followed by the United States (12.6%), and the rest of the World (12.7%) - this data is omitted to ensure participant anonymity. The spreadsheet contains a guide to the variable coding and data on the following variables: parity, birth type, infant sex, postnatal depression, infant death, infant adoption, maternal depression-anxiety-stress, birth complications, current depression, socioeconomic status during childbearing years, postnatal social support, year of mother's birth. For more details regarding data collection and the variables measured see Myers, S. and Johns, S.E. (2019).