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이지윤 ( Lee Ji-Yun ) -
강영호 ( Khang Young-Ho ) -
김유미 ( Kim Yu-Mi ) -
전경자 ( June Kyung-Ja ) -
조성현 ( Cho Sung-Hyun ) -
조홍준 ( Cho Hong-Jun ) -
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study is intended to examine the difficulties facing mothers of young children (early childhood) and to understand the associated factors.
Method: We analyzed 1,003 data items of women with children under age 2 who participated in a prenatal and early-childhood home visitation program in Seoul from 2016 to 2019. For our research, we used self-administered registration and service monitoring data. The difficulties the women faced as mothers were measured using the “Being a Mother Scale” (BaM-13). This analysis considered covariates including maternal and infant ages, their number of children, economic conditions, presence of disabilities, single motherhood, multicultural migration background, employment status, unintended pregnancy, instrumental and emotional support, and depression scores.
Results: The average score for being a mother was 14.45 (standard deviation=6.61), and higher scores were recorded for women with spouses, Korean women (as opposed to multicultural immigrant women), women whose pregnancies were unplanned, women without instrumental support, and severely depressed women.
Conclusion: Motherhood poses great difficulties to women with children under age two. To help women transition from motherhood, it is important to understand their situations in relation to their social and psychological characteristics, as well as the cultural, social, and contextual perspectives they bring to motherhood.
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KeyWords
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Mothers, Parenting, Stress, Transition, Woman
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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