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Mastery: The Key to Childbirth Satisfaction? A Study
Author(s) -
Humenick Sharron S.,
Bugen Larry A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1981.tb01563.x
Subject(s) - childbirth , psychology , scale (ratio) , obstetrics , key (lock) , pregnancy , medicine , computer science , genetics , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , computer security
The authors present research findings which show that prenatal expectations towards childbirth participation are somewhat predictive of three‐week postpartum descriptions of childbirth experiences. In a comparison of prenatal to postnatal scores on the scale of the Personal Attributes Questionnaire measuring instrumentality, group mean was shown to increase significantly in the postnatal measure. These gain scores were found to correlate significantly with women's perceived mastery behavior during childbirth, thus indicating support of a model in which mastery is described as the. key to childbirth satisfaction.