• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • UA Graduate and Undergraduate Research
    • UA Theses and Dissertations
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • UA Graduate and Undergraduate Research
    • UA Theses and Dissertations
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of UA Campus RepositoryCommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournal

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About

    AboutUA Faculty PublicationsUA DissertationsUA Master's ThesesUA Honors ThesesUA PressUA YearbooksUA CatalogsUA Libraries

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Social interaction and a pregnant woman's self-concept.

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    azu_td_9303287_sip1_m.pdf
    Size:
    5.027Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    azu_td_9303287_sip1_m.pdf
    Download
    Author
    Goddard, Barbara Ellen.
    Issue Date
    1992
    Keywords
    Interpersonal Relations
    Self Concept
    Pregnancy
    Committee Chair
    Ferketich, Sandra
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Publisher
    The University of Arizona.
    Rights
    Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
    Abstract
    This research was undertaken to measure the level of comfort pregnant women felt regarding the changing communication they experienced and how that response related to facets of self-concept over the last six months of pregnancy. Major focus was placed on the relationships between variables used to measure social interaction and self-concept. A descriptive, correlational research design with longitudinal data collection was chosen to measure the concepts. Social interaction was measured with the Prenatal Communication Comfort, Close Scale, the Prenatal Communication Comfort, Far Scale and the Interpersonal Support Subscale. Aspects of self-concept were measured with the Present Body Image Scale, the Self-esteem Scale, the Modified Self-reliance Scale and the Mastery Scale. All scales demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Purposive sampling was used to obtain the initial sample of 87 pregnant women (averaging 14.7 weeks gestation at time one) from across South Dakota. Over the next six months 67 of the women completed all three data collection periods. The women averaged 26 weeks gestation at time two and 37 weeks gestation at time three. Relationships among the major variables and the demographic variables were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation, analysis of variance and covariance, and t-tests. Analyses of variance suggested no significant change over time in self-esteem, self-reliance, mastery, body image or interpersonal support. Using exploratory data analysis, four subgroups demonstrated significant variance in comfort with prenatal communication with those inside and outside their immediate social circles. The four subgroups evidenced significant differences in their level of self-esteem, self-reliance and body image. This research clarifies the actuality that women who value themselves experience discomfort with the alterations they perceive in social exchanges during their pregnancies. Women with a lower sense of self-worth become more comfortable with prenatal communication changes, but the increasing comfort does not necessarily result in a better sense of self-worth. The results of this research further underline the importance of identifying women with a diminished self-concept. Nurses may be catalysts in helping pregnant women recognize that negative attention is not necessarily better than no attention.
    Type
    text
    Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic)
    Degree Name
    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Nursing
    Graduate College
    Degree Grantor
    University of Arizona
    Collections
    Dissertations

    entitlement

     
    The University of Arizona Libraries | 1510 E. University Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
    Tel 520-621-6442 | repository@u.library.arizona.edu
    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2017  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.