Neurodivergence and psychological vulnerability in childbirth-related posttraumatic stress

This data was obtained as part of the Honours thesis research project “Neurodivergence and psychological vulnerability in childbirth-related posttraumatic stress and consists of three files; SPSS data file with cleaned and transformed data, SPSS analysis output file and Excel spreadsheet of diagnoses. Qualtrics was used to anonymously collect data from 687 Australian women over 18 years who reported a traumatic birth experience. The data includes responses to demographic questions as wells as responses and total scores for childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (City Birth Trauma Scale-symptom subscale, BiTS-ss), emotion dysregulation (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-short form, DERS–SF), sensory processing sensitivity (Highly Sensitive Person Scale-reduced, HSPS-r), repetitive negative thinking (Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire, PTQ) and self–esteem (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, RSES). A total of 418 participants were retained for statistical analysis using SPSS software with PROCESS macro which involved a standard multiple regression analysis and three moderation analyses. Standard multiple regression demonstrated that together, emotion dysregulation, sensory processing sensitivity, repetitive negative thinking and self-esteem, significantly predicted and accounted for 30.9% of the variability in childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms. Moderation analyses revealed self-esteem did not significantly moderate the relationship between emotion dysregulation, sensory processing sensitivity, repetitive negative thinking and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms.