Social support as a factor in reducing parental stress and manifestations psychoemotional unwell-being in women
Abstract
This article presents a mathematical analysis of modern foreign studies of social support as a resource of coping and parental stress in motherhood. The empirical study focuses on the study of social support as a factor that comprehensively reduces the negative manifestations of conditions affecting the emotional distress of a woman in normative parenthood at all stages of motherhood. The parameters in the study were parental and everyday stress, parental guilt and the mother's subjective well-being, as well as characteristics of the woman's parental self-perception. The main goal of the study is focused on studying the relationship between social support as a resource for coping with parental and everyday stress, parental guilt, as well as the characteristics of a woman’s self-perception and psycho-emotional well-being. The study involved 216 women aged from 20 to 53 years (M = 37.14), having 1–4 children (M = 1.86, SD = 0.74) with parenthood experience from 0 to 31 years (M = 11.94, SD = 6.46). It was found that social support is a factor in reducing parental and everyday stress, and reduces the manifestations of negative psycho-emotional symptoms in mothers. Acts as a factor in a woman’s positive self-perception in parenthood and allows her to evaluate motherhood as a pleasant and emotionally rewarding experience, making parenthood more comfortable and less labor-intensive, and helps reduce the severity of parental guilt. The results obtained can form the basis for the development of programs for the correction and prevention of parental stress and emotional burnout for women experiencing difficulties in motherhood at all stages of parenthood.
About the Authors
Yu. V. Misiyk
Yaroslavl State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Misiyk Yu.V.
5 Revolyutsionnaya str., Yaroslavl, 150000
Phone: +7 (4852) 30-56-41
O. Yu. Odintcova
Yaroslavl State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Odintcova O.Yu.
5 Revolyutsionnaya str., Yaroslavl, 150000
Phone: +7 (4852) 30-56-41
O. V. Poletaeva
Yaroslavl State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Poletaeva O.V.
14 Sovetskaya str., Yaroslavl, 150000
Phone: +7 (4852) 79-77-02
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Misiyk Yu.V., Odintcova O.Yu., Poletaeva O.V. Social support as a factor in reducing parental stress and manifestations psychoemotional unwell-being in women. Medical Psychology in Russia. 2023;15(2):48-56. (In Russ.)
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