This is a qualitative social psychology study, which aims to describe how mothers with 1-2 year old children develop their identities, seen from Symbolic Interactionistic perspective. Five young mothers have been interviewed, through qualitative interviews and self reports. Through this data I have attempted to establish how these women develop their identities when they have been mothers for 1 or 2 years. The conclusions I have drawn is that the identities change radically with becoming a mother and all respondents take different decisions outfrom their identities as mother. There seems to exist a need of more knowledge about how to bring the identity of a woman and a mother together and create a new entity. Roles, anxiety and guilt influence the mother’s identity development, and Cooley and Meads ideas about the self are still going strong today.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:his-3751 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Johansson, Ulrika |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för teknik och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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