Many women experience psychological and emotional challenges during their transition to becoming a working mother. Postpartum depression (PPD) is one common, salient aspect of motherhood that can serve as a work-life shock event and profoundly shape women's work and nonwork lives yet has evaded discussion in the organizational sciences. Taking a grounded theory approach, we interviewed 41 women who experienced PPD as well as key informants who provided additional insights about PPD (e.g., an obstetrician, women working for organizations that support postpartum health). Our analysis highlights how being diagnosed with PPD activates a complex sensemaking process in which women process an imposing identity-a concept we introduce to the identity and work-family literatures reflecting an unexpected, undesirable identity that imposes upon existing (e.g., work) and/or provisional identities that may or may not be fully elaborated (e.g., motherhood), ultimately shifting how women think about the intersection of work and family. We also delineate how supports and antisupports (i.e., overt acts dismissive of women's PPD) shape the aforementioned processes. Combined, our research aims to advance the discussion of PPD within organizational scholarship, rendering significant implications for both theory and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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风暴中的意义建构：产后抑郁症如何塑造个人工作家庭叙事。

许多女性在成为职业母亲的过程中都会经历心理和情感上的挑战。产后抑郁症 (PPD) 是母亲身份的一个常见、突出的方面，它可以作为一种工作与生活冲击事件，深刻地影响女性的工作和非工作生活，但却回避了组织科学的讨论。我们采用扎根理论的方法，采访了 41 名经历过产后抑郁症的女性，以及提供有关产后抑郁症更多见解的关键知情人（例如，产科医生、在支持产后健康的组织工作的女性）。我们的分析强调了被诊断为产后抑郁症如何激活一个复杂的意义建构过程，在这个过程中，女性处理一种令人印象深刻的身份——我们在身份和工作家庭文献中引入的一个概念，反映了一种强加于现有（例如工作）和/或的意想不到的、不受欢迎的身份。或可能未得到充分阐述的临时身份（例如，母亲身份），最终改变女性对工作与家庭交叉点的看法。我们还描述了支持和反支持（即公开蔑视女性 PPD 的行为）如何塑造上述过程。综上所述，我们的研究旨在推进组织学术中对 PPD 的讨论，对理论和实践产生重大影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。