dc.contributor.advisor | Andipatin, Michelle | |
dc.contributor.author | Singh, Robyn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-04T10:31:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-31T22:10:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6372 | |
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.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | 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 | |
dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | |