A Study of the Prevalence of Various Motives Conception (the Pregnancy) and Their Relationship with the Level of Anxiety in the Primaparous and Multyparous Women in the 3-rd Trimester of Pregnancy

Abstract

After the analysis of the frequency of occurrence of various motives conception (the pregnancy), the authors concluded that only 20% of women are such motives as « pregnancy for a child» and «pregnancy from a loved one to» (positive in relation to the unborn child), which is significantly less (p<0.05) than the predominance of non-structural motifs. In the primaparous women with low anxiety level the most prevalent conception motive was "to comply with social expectations" (75%) and "to preserve own health" (25%). In the primaparous women with high anxiety level the most prevalent motive was "pregnancy for the sake of a child" (65%), and also "to preserve relationship" (25%) and "to preserve health" (10%). In the primaparous women with "nominally normal" anxiety level (for a pregnancy) the most prevalent motives were "pregnancy to preserve relationship" (55%) and "to comply with social expectations" (40%). In the multiparous women the main motives were "to comply with social expectations" (25%) "to preserve relationship with a man» (35%) and "to preserve health" (15%). In summary, according to the obtained data, in the primaparous women with low anxiety level the most prevalent motives were not positive with regard to the expected child (or associated with a beloved spouse), but driven by rational ideas of "compliance" and "health benefit". In contrast, the primaparous women with high anxiety level were frequently more positively motivated with regard to the expected child (i.e. high anxiety level was frequently caused by the worries about the expected child).