The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between self leadership and self-care of pregnant women.
The subjects consisted of 176 pregnant women who visit 4 women´s hospital in Taegu. The data were collected by questionnaires with some modification which used the self- leadership tool, SLQ 1(self-leadership questionnaire 1) and SLQ 2(self-leadership questionnaire 2) developed by Manz(1992), Thought self-leadership questionnaire developed by Neck (1993) and the self-care tool developed by literature review and Lee Mi Ra(1984).
The statistical analysis was used the SPSS program for frequency, mean, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation.
The results of this study are as follows.
1. The relationship between the demographic characteristics and self-leadership and self-care were as follows;
1) There was no statistically significant difference in self-leadership.
2) There was statistically significant difference according to occupation in self-management(t=2.30, p=.023).
3) There was statistically significant difference according to age in self-care (F=3.23, p=.024).
2. The relationship between the obstetric characteristics and self-leadership and self- care were as follows;
1) There was statistically significant difference according to antenatal examination(t=2.13, p=.035) and hope of pregnancy(t=4.48, p=.000) in self- leadership.
2) There was statistically significant difference according to hope of pregnancy in self-management(t=3.02, p=.003).
3) There was statistically significant difference according to hope of pregnancy in natural reward(t=3.16, p=.002).
4) There was statistically significant difference according to frequency of pregnancy(t=2.81, p=.005), frequency of delivery(t=2.11, p=.036), antenatal examination(t=2.16, p=.038), attending of childbirth education(F=3.57, p=.015) and hope of pregnancy(t=5.65, p=.000) in thought self-leadership.
5) There was statistically significant difference according to period of pregnancy(t=3.45, p=.034), antenatal examination(t=3.21, p=.003) in self-care.
3. The mean score for self-leadership was 3.15(5 point) and the subconcept thought self-leadership was the highest score at 3.31. The mean score for self-care was 2.76(4 point).
4. There were significant positive correlation between self-care and natural reward (r=.310, p=.000), self-leadership(r=.241, p=.001) and thought self-leadership (r= .181, p=.016).
In conclusion, this study revealed the level of self-leadership and self-care, and the positive correlation between self-leadership and self-care in pregnant women.
Therefore it should be developed self- leadership promoting programs for self-care of pregnant women and intervention is needed to promote self-leadership for self-care of pregnant women.
And it should attempt more studies to identify between self-leadership and self- efficacy.
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