A Developmental Study of Motherhood (4): In Women after Childbirth in Family Relationship

Abstract

　Using two questionnaires in the scale of Narcissistic Tendency (Hosoi, 1981) and concept of the maternal self (Hosoi, 1987) and interviewing, motherhood in the psychological process of pregnancy, delivery and confinement in family relationship were examined in 113 primiparae and 130 multiparae in hospital. In Study 1, it was found that primiparae have something on their body image and sick by pregnancy and delivery (p＜.05) and feel object loss in delivery (p＜.05) and multiparae feel uneasy repregnancy and never experience pain in delivery again (p＜.05), and women in abnormal process of delivery feel object loss after childbirth. In Study 2, the narcissistic tendencies toned by "self-love" and "sameness" found women depended on their mothers, and by "exhibition" found women on their friends.