This study explored the stress, coping strategies and importance of mothering and working roles in eight postpartum women. The objective was to identify any relationships that existed between the variables of interest by analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. The participants were volunteers who were contacted through their obstetrical office and through a women's resource center at a local hospital. One finding was that it was difficult to get postpartum women to participate in this study. The cause of this difficulty remained unknown at the conclusion of the study. / Some significant relationships were identified in the quantitative data. Subsequent analysis of the qualitative data called for three alternate hypotheses to be considered. Hypothesis one called for the acceptance of a consistent linear relationship between certain coping and adjustment variables. Hypothesis two suggested that some threshold might exist which influenced the two least adjusted participants (Cases 7 and 8) to choose different types of stressors (from Cases 1-6) to address on one of the free response instruments. The final hypothesis was one that suggested that no consistent relationship existed. This final hypothesis could be substantiated by analyzing scatterplots that suggested Cases 7 and 8 were outliers and artificially inflated the correlation coefficient. The final decision was to retain the three alternate hypotheses. / Potential relationships found in the qualitative data suggested that future research should initially address the process of selection of stressors, rather than the process of reaction to stressors. This type of analysis could ultimately lead to further theory development and insight into the phenomenon of postpartum adjustment. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-03, Section: A, page: 0473. / Major Professor: Gary W. Peterson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77104 |
| Contributors | Saturley, Joseph Howard., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 224 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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