EMPIRICAL INVESTI GATION OF THE FEATURES OF THE COMMUNICATION UNIT OF MATERIAL READIN G AND THE FACTORS OF IMPACT ON IT

Abstract

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to provide a theoretical substantiation and empirical study of the features of psychological readiness for motherhood, namely to study the statistical dependence between the features of the communicative block of maternity readiness and the factors that influence it. The practical significance of the study is the possibility of using the obtained practical data when working with pregnant women, young mothers, as well as women who are just planning their pregnancy. This material can be used in mother and child centers, women's consultations, maternity homes, lectures on family psychology, personality development and more.

Methods. The study was conducted at the Kherson City Clinical Hospital. O. Luchansky and Kherson State University. The empirical sample consisted of 27 pregnant women aged 20 to 30 years (first pregnancy, 4–7 months term, Group 1) and 20 non-pregnant women aged 19 to 21 years (4th year students, Group 2). The following psycho-diagnostic methods were used to achieve this goal: 1. Test of communicability level (V. Ryakhovsky), 2. Author's questionnaire “Willingness to motherhood”.

Results. Motherhood is a complex phenomenon that has physiological mechanisms, evolutionary history, cultural and individual characteristics. Motherhood is not provided with completely innate mechanisms, it contains a biological desire for motherhood, transformed by internalized social norms. At the present stage, motherhood is analyzed in terms of the personal development of women, psychological and physiological features of different periods of the reproductive cycle.

Conclusions. Motherhood defines a unique situation of the development of woman’s consciousness, which becomes a stage of rethinking the parental position from her own childhood experience, a period of integration of the image of mother and child.