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Breaking the maternity mold: navigating the return to work and challenging rigid maternal beliefs through an online psychological intervention
Originally published 2024-04-04 · Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1266162 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Examines rigid maternal expectations and recovery strategies, adding a personal-agency perspective alongside structural employer responsibilities.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Can a parent return without being trapped by an impossible idea of the perfect mother?
Examines rigid maternal expectations and recovery strategies, adding a personal-agency perspective alongside structural employer responsibilities.
Study context
Italian working mothers involved in maternal-belief scale testing and online psychological support around work return.
Age / stage: Adult mothers returning after maternity leave.
Read with three questions
- How did the shortened maternal-belief scale preserve the original dimensions?
- Which stress, anxiety and recovery outcomes changed after the online intervention?
- What comparison and follow-up evidence would be needed to establish a durable intervention effect?
Keep the limits in view
Initial psychometric and intervention findings are preliminary; the study does not show that changing mothers’ beliefs can substitute for fair workloads, leave or childcare support.
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Sebastiano Rapisarda; Alessandro De Carlo; Elena Pasqualetto; Brenda L Volling; Laura Dal Corso (2024). Breaking the maternity mold: navigating the return to work and challenging rigid maternal beliefs through an online psychological intervention Frontiers in Global Women's Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2024.1266162
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