This study attempted to confirm the difference of the identify formation as Mother for the first-time mother in early puerperium period according to feeding patterns.
The study´s design was descriptive one and the subjects were 133 first-time mothers who delivered vaginally at an university hospital in Daegu City, Korea from December 1994 to October 1995.
The Semantic Differential Scale (Osgood and others, 1957), which was developed into "Myself as Mother(SD-Self)" and "My Baby(SD-Baby)" by Walker(1977), was used to evaluate the formation of identify as mothers. The reliability value of "Myself as Mothers" was Cronbach"s alpha .73.
The data were analyzed by using the SAS(Statistical Analysis System) program and got the following conclusion:
1) Mean age was 27.6(S.D.±2.24) and mean duration of marriage was 1.8 years(S.D±1.09). The percentage of the employed subjects was 43.61% and the average family income was 1,621.800(S.D.±81.63)Won. 81.20% of the subjects wanted pregnancy and the percentage of female infants was 51.88%. The percentage of the mixed milk, the breast feeding and the milk groups were 48.47%, 31.58% and 19.55% respectively.
The result of test of hypothesis was :
2) There was a significant difference statistically in SD-Self according to feeding patterns, so the hypothesis 1 was accepted(F=3.69, p=0.0277). The mixed milk group scored the highest mean SD-Self, followed by the breast feeding group and the milk group. The Tukey test, conducted as the post-test, showed a significant difference of SD-Self between the milk group and the mixed milk group of the first-time mothers. This showed the difference of SD-Self according to the feeding patterns.
3) There was a significant difference statistically in SD-Baby according to feeding patterns, so the hypothesis 2 was accepted(F=3.44, p=0.0351). The mixed milk group scored the highest mean SD-Baby, followed by the breast feeding group and the milk group. The turkey test, conducted as the post-test, showed a significant difference of SD-Baby between the milk group and the mixed group of the first-time mothers. This showed the difference of SD-Baby according to the feeding patterns.
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