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Genevieve Ritchie-Ewing awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

July 30, 2015

Genevieve Ritchie-Ewing awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

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Congratulations go to Genevieve Ritchie-Ewing, who has just learned that she is to be awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project, "Managing mixed messages: Societal expectations of motherhood and maternal stress during pregnancy."  She will investigate the connections between societal expectations, women's experiences with decision-making and their emotional and biological stress levels during pregnancy. She will use qualitative and quantitative methods to 1) determine where pregnant women get messages about appropriate behaviors during pregnancy and childbirth and ascertain if these messages conflict, 2) explore how pregnant women make decisions about which practices to integrate into their daily lives and birth plans, 3) investigate links between women's experiences making decisions about which advice to follow and their emotional stress levels (particularly pregnancy-specific anxiety or anxiety associated with pregnancy-related concerns), and 4) establish if there are associations between women's experiences making decisions about expert advice, increased pregnancy-specific anxiety rates, and higher biological stress levels (i.e., steeper cortisol trajectories).

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