Evaluating the correlation between maternal role and parenting behavior
Koc, Ozlem and Ozkan, Hava and Bekmezci, Hediye
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Abstract
Objective: The descriptive and correlational study was conducted to
evaluate the correlation between the maternal role and parenting
behavior in the early postpartum period.
Methods: The study was conducted with 291 mothers, who applied to the
ObstetricPostpartum services of Maternity Hospital in Erzurum between 1
May 2015 and 18 September 2015. The data was collected by using the
personal information form, Myself as Mother Scale and Postpartum
Parenting Behavior Scale. The data were evaluated bby using the
descriptive statistics, t-test, one way analysis of variance, Kruskal
Wallis, Mann Whitney-U, and Pearson Correlation Analysis.
Results: While the mean score obtained by the mothers from the Myself as
Mother Scale was 52.16 +/- 6.63 points, their Postpartum Parenting
Behavior Scale mean score was 4.68 +/- 1.34 points. The mothers' age,
educational status, place of residence, income level perception, working
status, type of family, number of pregnancies and living children,
planned status of the pregnancy, status of receiving antenatal care, and
delivery method affected the maternal role. The mothers' age,
educational status, place of residence, income level perception, working
status, number of pregnancies, living children, and stillbirths, status
of planning the pregnancy, status of receiving antenatal care, and
delivery method were effective on the parenting behavior. It was found
that there was a statistically significant and very weak correlation
between the mean scores of Myself as Mother Scale and Postpartum
Parenting Behavior Scale (r= 0.142, p= 0.015).
Conclusion: It was determined that as gaining maternal role in the early
postpartum period increased, the success of the parenting behavior also
increased at very weak level.... Show more Show less