... For example, young maternal age, low socioeconomic status, poor social support and/or marital relationship, history of abuse and/or domestic violence, and food insecurity are associated with depression and anxiety in mothers (Beydoun, Beydoun, Kaufman, Lo, & Zonderman, 2012;Biaggi, Conroy, Pawlby, & Pariante, 2016;Chung et al., 2004;Dolbier et al., 2013;Field, 2017;Leung, Epel, Willett, Rimm, & Laraia, 2014;Norhayati, Hazlina, Asrenee, & Emilin, 2015;Sockol et al., 2014;Wu, Chen, & Xu, 2012). Additional risk factors for elevated anxiety symptoms include being employed and having a high level of education (Field, 2017) highlighting the inconsistencies in the field between predictors across individual psychological distress symptoms. Risk factors associated with increased perinatal maternal stress include young age, low-income, low educational attainment, history of sexual abuse, stressful life events in the last month, smoking, alcohol consumption, low social support, preterm birth, and pregnancy with complications (Graignic-Philippe, Dayan, Chokron, Jacquet, & Tordjman, 2014;Roy-Matton, Moutquin, Brown, Carrier, & Bell, 2011). ...