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KMID : 0377619940590020137
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1994 Volume.59 No. 2 p.137 ~ p.148
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Study on the Difficulties and Gratification of Mother´s Role
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Abstract
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This study made a survey of difficulties and gratification of mother´s role on mothers who have children under age of one year in the C University Hospital of J City and mothers who have healthy children under one year of age around apartment house area of J City from Oct. 15, 1993 to Oct. 30, 1993.
Materials for data was questionnaire, and T-test and F-test were made by SPSS.4.0 therewith and scheffe test was made by a post check of F-test. The result was as follows.
1. The difficulties of mother who has a baby of disease was showed as 28.88 while that of mother who has a healthy baby was showed as 26.59, and there was a significant difference between two groups (T= 2.11, P= .04). However, there was no- a significant difference in the gratification of mother´s role according to the presence of baby´s disease (T= -.50, P= .62).
2. The difficulties and gratification of mother who has a baby of disease by characteristics is as follows.
1) There was no a significant difference in the difficulties of mother´s role (F= .71, P= .55) when mothers who have babies of disease were analyzed by ages of 20? 25, 26?30, 31 ~ 35 and over 36. However, there was significant difference in the gratification of mother´s role (F= 2.66, P= .05).
Mother over 36 years old had less gratification than those of ages 20 ?25, 26 ?30 and 31 ?35 in the mother´s role.
2) There was a significant difference in the difficulties of mother´s role (F= 3.00, P= .055) when mothers who have babies of disease were analyzed by graduates of junior, senior high school and college. The difficulties of mother´s role were more appeared among the group of high school graduate mothers. However, there was no a significant difference in the gratification according to the level of education (F= 2.18, P= .12).
3) There was no a significant difference in the difficulties (F= .50, P= .61) and gratification (F= .32, P= .73) of mother´s role when mothers who have babies of disease were analyzed by numbers of children, namely, one child, two children and there children.
4). There was a significant difference in the difficulties of mother´s role (F= 2.56, P= .04) when mother who has a baby of disease was analyzed by a financial situation. A group of mothers of small income showed more difficulties than that of large income. However, there was no a significant difference in the gratification of mother´s role.
5). There was no a significant difference in the difficulties (F= 2.02, P= .10) and gratification (F= 1.24, P= .30) when mother who has a baby of disease was analyzed by a type of counselors, namely, doctor, friend parents, parents-in-law, and others.
A group of mothers with friend counselors showed more difficulties than that with parents or parents-in-law counselors while a group of mothers with parents or parents-in-law counselors showed more the gratification of mother´s role than that with friend counselors.
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