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The Psycho-Social Wellbeing of the Teenage Mothers

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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Title The Psycho-Social Wellbeing of the Teenage Mothers
 
Creator Pitso, T.
Kheswa, J.
Nekhwevha, F.
Sibanda, M.
 
Description The quantitative study assessed the psychosocial wellbeing of teenage mothers. This report analysed the current positions of women whose first child was to be born when they were teenagers in the rural Eastern Cape Province. The structured questionnaires were administered to 106 pregnant teenagers in clinics around Alice, Eastern Cape. Convenient sampling was used to select respondents. Data was analysed using SPSS version 18.0. Statistical software. Descriptive and inferential statistics were both employed. The binary regression model was used to assess the factors affecting the pregnant teenagers’ readiness for motherhood. The psycho-social theory of Erikson posited that children with negative psycho-social development have a high chance of facing identity crisis/confusion. As a result, this might lead to them being victims of psycho-social interaction such as early pregnancy. Both the descriptive and the binary regression results indicated that 79% of the teenage mothers showed lack of readiness for motherhood, hence their psychosocial wellbeing was negative.
DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n10p610
 
Publisher Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
 
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Date 2014-06-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier https://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/2932
 
Source Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences; Vol 5, No 10 (2014): Special Issue - June 2014; 610
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/2932/2894
 
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