Structure and stability of maternal support among pregnant and parenting adolescents
| Autor: | G. Anne Bogat, Lisa Galasso, William S. Davidson, Bianca L. Guzman, Robert A. Caldwell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Community Psychology. 26:549-568 |
| ISSN: | 1520-6629 0090-4392 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199811)26:6<549::aid-jcop3>3.0.co;2-7 |
| Popis: | In the US social scientists have been troubled by the dramatic increase in the pregnancy rate among women younger than 20 because of the negative sequelae that often result from adolescent pregnancy and motherhood. To reduce some of these sequelae many pregnant and parenting teens rely on their social support network especially on their own mothers. This study was conducted to examine the effects of positive support and conflict that pregnant/parenting adolescents received from their mothers. It was assessed whether the teens pattern of support and conflict with her mother changes from the prenatal to the postnatal period. A typology of maternal support and conflict was established using cluster analytic procedures from data collected prenatally among 175 mixed racial background participants from an alternative school for pregnant/parenting adolescents. An identifiable pattern of maternal support and conflict among pregnant adolescents was apparent both before and after childbirth. These patterns of support and conflict were meaningfully related to adolescents stress before childbirth but were not related to any of the outcome variables after birth. Both positive and negative changes in maternal support and conflict from the pre- to postnatal period were related to significantly higher levels of all measures of stress and lower levels of self-esteem. These findings have implications for the theoretical literature preventive interventions and public policy relevant to the relationships of teens with their mothers. |
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