Stress experienced by mothers of young children

Bibliographic Data

ID15216594
AuthorsL Joan Brailey (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume11
Issue3
Pages347-358
Publication date1990-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399339009515903
PMID2391290
OpenAlexW322675497
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Every stage of a child's maturation requires psychological adaptation by the parent. This study was designed to find categories of events that mothers of preschool children find stressful and to categorize the events by context of the stress for the mothers. Data were collected from a purposive sample of 153 married mothers, employed and unemployed, who each had at least one child two or three years of age. A semistructured interview schedule was used. Events described related mostly to typical egocentric behavior of preschool children struggling for autonomy or to events in which the child's well-being was threatened in some way. Events were categorized into four contexts: stress due to the child's negative behavior, stress due to conflict between other demands on the mother and the child's needs, threat to the mother's image or self-esteem, and threat to the child's well-being

Autonomy · Categorization · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Geography · Stress (linguistics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Family Support in Illness · Psychology

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