This work is based on a study of the personal, family and social meanings associated with the pregnancy of adolescent (teenage) girls. / The most immediate goal was to acquire theoretic and methodological tools allowing to progress in the study of the meanings of pregnancy from the point of view of adolescent girls and in the analysis of the underlying semantic network. In particular, the research specifically explores and compares the meanings and the social representations of teenage pregnancy in low-income sectors, in the family and among peers. It also examines how these meanings and representations circulate in a non pregnant teenage group from the same social sector. / Family meanings associated with pregnancy have been studied through the pregnant and non pregnant teenage perceptions. / Social meanings have been studied from the interpretation that the social group of reference--peers group--gives to pregnancy, according to the perception of the interviewed girls. / The sample is comprised of 17 teenagers: 7 pregnant teenagers, 6 non pregnant teenagers and 4 teenage mothers in low income, french speaking sectors. / The methodology is qualitative and based on exploratory instruments. Interviews are semistructured. / The variables describing the meanings and social support figure prominently in the present study. / Research was carried out in two east-end areas of the city of Montreal.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68242 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Piñero, Laura |
| Contributors | Corin, Ellen (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001397704, proquestno: AAIMM94500, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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