ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Rudee Pungbangkadee

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Experiences of Early Motherhood among Thai Adolescents Perceiving Conflict Between Needs as a Mother and an Adolescent.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Thai Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 12, No. 1, January-March 2008, Page 70.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Adolescent mothers are considered to be at high risk of becoming mothers because of psychological immaturity and their own normal development needs that may conflict with the needs of their child. Adolescents perception and meaning of motherhood determine their strategies to live with conflicting needs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of early motherhood among Thai adolescents who had a child ages less than 6 months Participants were 21 adolescent mothers who attended at well baby clinics of the Health Centers 49 Taksin Hospital and Siriraj Hospital. Data collection and analysis were guided by grounded theory approach. The data collection and analysis occurred simultaneously during August 2004 to December 2005. Data were collected by multiple in-depth interviews and participant observation. The findings demonstrated that living with conflict between needs as a mother and an adolescent was a core category the process in developing early motherhood. Four perceiving conflicting needs which included perceiving conflict between focusing on the child and the self perceiving conflict between taking care of the child and desiring to go to school or work perceiving conflict between concerning maternal images and self-images and perceiving conflict between interdependence with family and independence from family was emerged and identified as the causal condition that led adolescent mothers to use strategies for living with conflicting needs. These findings recommended that health care providers need to be more se4nsitive to adolescents perceiving conflicting needs in order to promote using appropriate leading to positive experience of motherhood and positive mother-child outcomes.

Keywords: conflict, psychology, conflicting needs, early motherhood, grounded theory, Thai adolescents

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Chiang Mai University

Code: 200800361

ISSN/ISBN: 0859-7685

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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