The System Of Values In Normal And High-risk Pregnancies

• Authors: Aleksandra H. Rutkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

The values to which a person adheres shape one’s personality. The aim of our present project was to assess whether, and in what way, the crisis connected with high-risk pregnancy infl uences a woman’s system of values. The study group consisted of 61 patients in the Department and Ward of Obstetrics and Pregnancy Pathology of the Medical University of Lublin in their fi rst high-risk pregnancy. The control group was composed of 50 women in their fi rst normal pregnancy. The average age in each group was 27.4. The majority of women were married and educated. Method: sociometric survey and the Polish adaptation of Value Survey (VS) by M. Rokeach, 1973. Data was analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U Test. The study showed no differences between the preferred terminal and instrumental values in either group. The terminal values included: Family security, Mature love, Wisdom, Self-Respect etc.; the instrumental ones included: Love, Responsibility, Honesty.

Keywords

EN

pregnancy; high-risk; social values

• Publisher: University of Wrocław, Institute of Psychology and Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
• Journal: Polish Journal of Applied Psychology
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 97-107

Contributors

author

Aleksandra H. Rutkowska

• Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin