1998 年 48 巻 6 号 p. 461-473
Childbirth Stage is an important and transitional stage of developmental crisis for women. There are, however, few studies on the development of motherhood at childbirth stage and on self-evaluation of childbirth experience. In this study, special attention is paid on the discrepancy between ideal and actual experience to study the relationship between self-evaluation of childbirth experience and motherhood awareness development. The relationship between satisfaction in the conditions mothers believe important at childhood and motherhood awareness were studied to find the following results : (1) The higher the satisfaction in four factors of childbirth self-evaluation (“good delivery”, “safe and easy delivery”, “trust in obstetrics staff” and “motherhood awareness”), the higher the self-evaluation and self-esteem scores, (2) discrepancy between the conditions mothers believe important at childbirth and satisfaction affects self-esteem scores and (3) Whether satisfaction is achieved in the conditions they believe important in the items of self-evaluation scale at childbirth determines rise in self-esteem of mothers and affects motherhood awareness development.
