Exploring psychological distress among a sample of pregnant women from a low income area who self-identify as being distressed
| dc.contributor.advisor | Andipatin, Michelle | |
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, Robyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-04T10:31:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-19T07:39:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-31T22:10:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-19T07:39:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | Magister Artium - MA (Psychology) | |
| dc.description.abstract | Psychological distress during pregnancy has been a fairly neglected phenomenon and has only recently started emerging as an area of research interest. The existing body of scholarship on distress during pregnancy has largely been conducted from a positivist paradigm, emphasising the identification, incidences and risks. There is thus a dearth of qualitative inquiry into pregnant women's experiences and accounts of distress. In an attempt to address these gaps within the literature, my study explored psychological distress among a group of pregnant women from socio-economically disadvantaged contexts. The specific objectives of my study was to explore how pregnant women conceptualised psychological distress within the context of pregnancy; the feelings or symptoms of psychological distress; what pregnant women perceived as its causes; and the psychosocial needs of pregnant women in relation to antenatal distress. This study was guided by a feminist approach and a feminist standpoint epistemology in particular. This lent itself to exploring the phenomenon while departing from a clinical, decontextualised position which translated into an investigation with pregnant women who subjectively perceived themselves to be distressed. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/12184 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.subject | psychological distress during pregnancy, antenatal psychological distress, perinatal distress, maternal distress, maternal mental health, self-reported distress, qualitative methodology, feminist standpoint epistemology | |
| dc.title | Exploring psychological distress among a sample of pregnant women from a low income area who self-identify as being distressed |
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