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This study aimed to examine the relationships of postmigration stress, intimate partner violence, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, social support, and resilience with PPD, and to explore if social support and resilience serve as indirect pathways linking postmigration stress and PPD in Syrian refugee women in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Data for this cross-sectional study were collected using structured telephone interviews from a convenience sample of 200 Syrian refugee women living in T\u00fcrkiye between August 2022 and February 2023. Participants completed validated measures, including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, Abuse Assessment Screen, and Postmigration Living Difficulties scale. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the predictors of PPD. The bootstrapping technique with bias-corrected confidence intervals was employed to estimate indirect effects in Mplus.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The findings of this study revealed that resilience (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 0.921, 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.867\u20130.979) and anxiety (AOR: 1.338, 95% CI: 1.17\u20131.53) significantly predicted PPD. Path analysis demonstrated that postmigration stress was indirectly associated with PPD through Social support (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.033, 95% CI: 0.004\u20130.079) and resilience (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.157, 95% CI: 0.077\u20130.244).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among the examined factors, only anxiety and resilience predicted PPD. Syrian refugee mothers in T\u00fcrkiye might experience unique social life conditions that influence reporting postmigration stress and PTSD. Whereas social support and resilience served as significant indirect pathways between postmigration stress and PPD, the cross-sectional nature of the data precludes causal or temporal inferences. 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