Expecting A Baby in The Middle of Uncertainty:Semi-structured Interviews with Thematic Analysis

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2017-09-01

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Türe, Didem
Şahin Acar, Başak

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Mothering experiences of women, and their self-beliefs about mothering, differ across cultures as well as on individual bases. In this study, researchers aimed to find out how women describe their problems, fears and anxieties and how they cope with these in the process of transition to motherhood, in other words pregnancy period. The answers to semi-structured interviews were collected from participants via online questionnaire. These answers were analyzed by using thematic analysis method. Theme analysis was conducted with a data of 67 Turkish first time pregnant women who were aged between 24 and 37 (M= 29.39, SD = 3.04). All participants were naturally conceived. Data collection process coincided with a critical period for Turkey when possible traumas were socially frequently experienced (July 2015-September 2016, 16 terrorist bomb attack, 293 dead and hundreds of injured people in Turkey), in addition to economic and social uncertainties that were affecting daily life of people. According to analyses, most participants (% 38.8) mentioned that during pregnancy, they were anxious about childlessness (f = 40) and %28.4 of women stated that the most effective way for coping with these problems was spousal support (f = 26). For the questions about post pregnancy period (what will be the possible problem that you will face while raising your kid?), the most frequently mentioned theme was national pessimism (f= 55) by the participants (%49.2). When participants? coping strategy was inquired, they (%17.9) mostly mentioned there would be no solution, which is labeled as hopelessness (f= 14). Participants? concerns about taking new responsibilities, being a mother and raising children were found to be mainly related with societal reasons that might not have created much anxiety in another cultural context or zeitgeist.

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http://www.ecdp2017.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2017/08/ECDP2017-Abstract-book-V2.compressed.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71720
https://na.eventscloud.com/ehome/203902/605597/

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18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (29 August - 01 September 2017)

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D. Türe and B. Şahin Acar, “Expecting A Baby in The Middle of Uncertainty:Semi-structured Interviews with Thematic Analysis,” presented at the 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (29 August - 01 September 2017), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.ecdp2017.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2017/08/ECDP2017-Abstract-book-V2.compressed.pdf.