The correlation between levels of prenatal attachment and styles coping with stress in pregnant women
Citation
Gulseren Daglar, Dilek Bilgic & Demet Cakir (2021): The correlation between levels of prenatal attachment and styles coping with stress in pregnant women, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2021.2001795Abstract
Background: Pregnancy is a very important period in the development
of attachment.
Objective: To determine the correlation between prenatal attachment
levels of healthy pregnant women and their styles of coping
with stress and those of high-risk pregnant women.
Method: This descriptive study consisted of 76 women in their thirdtrimester
of pregnancy hospitalised at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology
service at a hospital and 210 women in their third-trimester of pregnancy
who were experiencing a healthy pregnancy process and
admitted to the Gynaecology Outpatient Clinic for pregnancy followup.
The data were collected with the Personal Information Form, the
Prenatal Attachment Inventory and the Stress Coping Styles Scale.
Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the
prenatal attachment levels of healthy and high-risk pregnant women.
There was a positive correlation between the prenatal attachment
levels and the self-confident and optimistic approaches among the
styles of coping with stress in the healthy and high-risk pregnant
women .
Conclusion: The attachment levels of the high-risk pregnant
women were higher than were those of the healthy pregnant
women. As the use of the self-confident and optimistic approach
styles in coping with stress increases among healthy and high-risk
pregnant women, so do their prenatal attachment levels.