Pregnant teenagers’ readiness for motherhood: A quantitative investigation in Nkonkobe municipality, Eastern Cape.

dc.contributor.authorPitso, Tsolo Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-05T12:13:16Z
dc.date.available2016-09-05T12:13:16Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe issue of teenage motherhood has been a concern, globally, continentally and locally. The quantitative study assessed whether the pregnant teenagers were ready for motherhood. This report analysed the current positions of women whose first child was to be born when they were teenagers in the rural Eastern Cape setting. The structured questionnaires were given to 106 pregnant teenagers who visited the War Memorial clinic for pregnancy check-up and convenient sampling was used to select these respondents. The items of the questionnaire were divided into the following sub-topics: prenatal and postnatal challenges and roles and responsibilities of motherhood. The study found that most of the pregnant teenagers were aware of the prenatal and postnatal challenges but they were not ready to perform the roles and responsibilities associated with motherhood. The analysis of data was divided in terms of descriptive and inferential statistics. The binary regression model was used to assess the factors affecting the pregnant teenagers’ readiness for motherhood. The finding of this study indicated that most (about 79%) of the pregnant teenagers were not aware of the roles and responsibilities of motherhood In addition to being not ready to face the psycho-social challenges of motherhood. Hence they indicated low level of readiness to motherhood. The psycho-social theory of Erikson posited that children who had strong and intact psycho-social relationships with the caregivers might have a high possibility of acquiring their identity during adolescent stage and this will help them to interact both effectively and efficiently with their peers and the society at large. While those do had negative psycho-social development have a high chance of facing identity crisis/confusion. As a result, they might lead them to being victims of psycho-social interaction such as early pregnancy.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/430
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen_ZA
dc.titlePregnant teenagers’ readiness for motherhood: A quantitative investigation in Nkonkobe municipality, Eastern Cape.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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