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Vol.16 Issue.3 · July-September 2025
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The relationship between personality traits of postpartum women and perception of traumatic birth and postpartum fatigue

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Published Online: 29 September 2025 · Accepted: 13 September 2025 · Received: 20 August 2025
Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.25.00381
Cite Code: The Journal of Turkish Family Physician 2025;16(3):181-195
Authors: Zeliha Özşahin 1 · Zeliha Gülsüm Aksakal 2
1 Inonu University Faculty of Health Sciences, Midwifery Department, Res. Ase, Malatya, Turkey
2 Birecik State Hospital, Department of Midwifery, Midewife, Şanlıurfa. {ORCID:0000-0002-7866-3846}

Alıntı Kodu: Özşahin Z. ve Aksakal ZG. Lohusaların kişilik özellikleri ile travmatik doğum algısı ve doğum sonu yorgunluk arasındaki ilişki. Jour Turk Fam Phy 2025; 16 (3): 181-195. Doi: 10.15511/tjtfp.25.00381.

Ethical approval (Decision No: 2022/3104) was obtained from Inonu University Health Sciences Non-Interventional Clinical Research and Publication Ethics Committee and institutional permission was obtained from the State Hospital where the study was conducted. No conflict of interest declared.

This article is published online with Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).


Keywords: personality characteristics · Postpartum fatigue · traumatic birth perception
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Aim: This study investigated the relationship between postpartum women’s personality traits, traumatic birth perception, and postpartum fatigue.

Method: A descriptive-correlational design was used with 400 postpartum women at Şanlıurfa Birecik State Hospital. Data were collected using a personal information form, Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPS), Scale of Traumatic Childbirth Perception (STCP), Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue (MAF), and statistical analyses included descriptive methods, t-tests, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, and Pearson correlation.

Results: The average STCP score was 51.06±38.90, MAF was 24.56±8.18, and TIPS was 32.29±3.84. Extraversion was negatively correlated with traumatic birth perception, while emotional stability, conscientiousness, and agreeableness were positively correlated with both STCP and MAF scores.

Conclusion: Extraverted women perceived birth as less traumatic but experienced more fatigue. Other traits such as emotional stability, conscientiousness, and agreeableness were linked to higher perceptions of trauma and fatigue. Socio-demographic and obstetric factors also influenced outcomes. 

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