Women's anticipation and experience of childbirth: The independence of fulfilment, unpleasantness and pain
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
- Vol. 63 (3) , 255-259
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1990.tb01617.x
Abstract
Adjectives or phrases used by women in their description of childbirth were identified by interviewing two groups of 10 women, one drawn from an antenatal clinic, the other following delivery of a healthy child. The terms obtained were formed into a questionnaire on which 106 antenatal women described their expectations of childbirth and 82 postnatal women described their experience. Principal components analysis revealed two important findings. First, the ratings were multidimensional; that is, a dimension of fulfilment and achievement was independent of one of emotional feeling. Second, painfulness was not associated with either dimension.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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