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Social support and pregnancy:I. Factorial structure and psychosocial correlates of perceived social support
Author(s) -
KITAMURA TOSHINORI,
TODA MARI A.,
SHIMA SATORU,
SUGAWARA KENSUKE,
SUGAWARA MASUMI
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb00969.x
Subject(s) - social support , psychology , irritability , pregnancy , psychosocial , developmental psychology , emotional support , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , biology , genetics
In a questionnaire survey among 1329 first‐trimester pregnant women, social support providers were divided by factor analysis into husband, ‘premarital network’ (parents and friends) and ‘postmarital network’ (children and mother‐in‐law), while social support contents were divided into ‘given’ (emotional, informational and instrumental support) and ‘giving’ (nurturing opportunity and general confiding). The husband was most frequently nominated by the woman as the support provider in both of these categories. Multiple regression analyses revealed that a husband's poor ‘given’ support was predicted by the presence of premenstrual irritability, a lower level of the woman's own education, her smoking habits and past experience of pregnancy termination, while a husband's poor ‘giving’ support was predicted by current older age, smoking habits and past experience of delivery.