The Developmental Nature of Parental Awareness in Adolescent Mothers [microform] / Louise H. Flick and Maryellen McSweeney
- Bib ID:
- 5467066
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Flick, Louise H
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED269685
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 27 p.
- Summary:
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Adolescent mothers display less frequent, accepting, and involved interaction with their children than do older mothers. Yet the role of the young mothers' psychosocial immaturity in these phenomena remains unexplained. This project explores the validity of Newberger's model of Parental Awareness (PA) which outlines hierarchical stages in the structural development of social thought in the domain of parents' conceptions of their children and their role as parents. This cross-sectional study drew an age-stratified sample of 193 adolescent mothers from two inner-city programs. The subjects were 15-20 years of age and fell into two groups: Parents, whose eldest child was aged 9-27 months (N=136) and Non-Parents, who were pregnant or had recently delivered their first child (N=57). Interviews were tape recorded in the home and were scored blind. PA was found to increase with age independently of the effects of social status, vocabulary acquisition, social support, recent negative life changes, or length of parental experience. Older adolescent mothers showed greater flexibility in their thought and a greater capacity for considering complex circumstances when making judgments about child rearing than did younger mothers. These findings support the potential of PA as a developmental dimension to be considered when providing care to young mothers. (Author/ABL)
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD.
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs (PHS), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: 1-R01-MH-36915.
- Contract Number: 1-R01-PG00136.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Nurses' Association (San Diego, CA, December 4-7, 1985). For related document, see CG 019 071.
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- 1985
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