Managing Motherhood: Strategies Used by New Mothers to Maintain Perceptions of Wellness

Currie, Janet L.

doi:10.1080/07399330902928873

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“…Physical activity is an everyday practice through which women may open up a space for "self-fashioning" and a chance for thinking of oneself in ways other than the norm predicts (Heyes, 2007, p. 119). This in turn can lead to feelings of empowerment as women experience a sense of entitlement and begin to transform their lives to create space to engage in LTPA (Currie, 2009;Deem & Gilroy, 1998;Henderson & Bialeschki, 1991).…”

Section: Ltpa and Resistancementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Postnatal depression affects up to 15% of childbearing women postpartum (Meltzer-Brody et al, 2013) and in Australia it is considered a major public health issue for mothers and their families (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2012). Women themselves have identified that LTPA is an important aspect of postnatal well-being (Currie, 2009;Daley, MacArthur, & Winter, 2007). They also, however, report difficulties continuing with formal exercise in the postnatal period for various reasons including high stress levels (Lox & Treasure, 2000), lack of energy, feeling unwell, and lack of time and space for LTPA (Doran & Davis, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Mothers with young children: Caring for the self through the physical activity space

2016

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Mothers with young children have been consistently identified in public health discourses as having lower levels of leisure time physical activity than the general population. They are subsequently positioned as an at risk population susceptible to, for example, weight gain and postnatal depression. Women's ethic of care and good mother discourses work together to constrain mother's physical activity levels. In addition, public health discourses attempt to mobilize mothers into engaging in regular, rigorous sessions of leisure time physical activity, which often creates a calculative relation to self as women try to meet the expectations prescribed by health professionals. In this article, however, we employ Foucault's ethics of self to explore how 18 mothers with young children problematized and resisted prescriptive notions such as the ethic of care to create a space to begin to practice self-care through participation in leisure-time physical activity.

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Section: Ltpa and Resistancementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Mothers with young children: Caring for the self through the physical activity space

2016

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“…The interviewed sportswomen felt society did not understand that the mother was to continue being a sportswoman and had to postpone being with her children. Similarly, both Currie's (2009) mothers and the sportswomen mothers in our study alike spoke of the guilt they experienced when they were separated from their children. They needed to have that time for themselves, but they could not help but feel guilty.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…After the birth of their children, the sportswomen in this study looked for "their space" and "their moment." Currie (2009) pointed out that one of the strategies women use to feel well about being a mother is taking "a break from motherhood": a time for the woman and a break for the mother. The sportswomen from our study learned to create separate, but intertwined spheres.…”

Section: A New Identitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Maternity in Spanish Elite Sportswomen: A Qualitative Study

Martínez-Pascual

Alvarez-Harris

Fernández‐de‐las‐Peñas

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Women & Health

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The aim of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the experiences of maternity among Spanish elite sportswomen. Twenty (n = 20) Spanish elite sportswomen with the following criteria were included: (a) aged 18-65 years; (b) had been pregnant during their sporting professional career; and (c) after the end of their pregnancy they had returned to their professional sporting career for at least one year. A qualitative analysis was conducted. Data were collected using in-depth personal interviews, investigator's field notes, and extracts from the participants' personal letters. Identified themes included: (a) a new identity, with two sub-themes ("mother role" and "being visible"); (b) going back to sport, with three subthemes ("guilt appears," "justifying going back to sport," and "rediscovering sport"); and, (c) reaching a goal, with two subthemes ("balancing mother-sportswoman" and "the challenge of maternity"). Understanding the meaning of maternity for elite Spanish sportswomen might help gain deeper insight into their expectations and develop training systems focused on elite sports women after pregnancy.

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“…Günümüzde ise anneliğe yeni unsurlar eklenmiştir. Örneğin günümüzde annelik, planlanarak yapılan bir durumdur (Currie, 2009;Pınar, Doğan, Algıer, Kaya ve Çakmak, 2009). Çocuk bakımında modern tıp ve çocuk uzmanlarının sunduğu en yeni bilgiler kullanılmalıdır.…”

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Geleneksel Annelik Ölçeği’nin Psikometrik Özellikleri: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Kiliçgün¹,

Kiliçkaya²

2016

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Öz AbstractThe objective of this research is to investigate the psychometric properties of Traditional Motherhood Scale developed by Dr. Whatley and Dr. Knox in 2004 for Turkish mothers with children aged 3-6. For this purpose, the validity and reliability analyzes of scale were made and scale raw scores, z and T-scores were calculated. The sample of the study included 267 mothers. According to research findings; The Turkish version of languages validity index scale was found to be 0.785. With respect to the confirmatory factor analysis; load factor for the traditional role of motherhood hidden variables ranged between .47-.77. Standardized regression coefficients belonging in scale model and all the roads in the model were found statistically significant. The  2 value of scale was 239.278, it's  2 /sd value was 1.772, RMR value was .099, GFI value was .909, AGF value was .885, NFI value was .901, CFI values was .954 and RMSEA value was .054. Calculated Cronbach  coefficient in order to determine the reliability of scale was .935, Spearman Brown coefficient was .852 and test-retest reliability coefficient was .878. Obtained all these findings support that the Traditional Motherhood Scale is a valid and reliable scale to Turkish mothers with children aged 3-6. The scale is expected to be contributed to many studies which are on family, parents and children in Turkey.

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Managing Motherhood: Strategies Used by New Mothers to Maintain Perceptions of Wellness

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

Mothers with young children: Caring for the self through the physical activity space

Mothers with young children: Caring for the self through the physical activity space

Maternity in Spanish Elite Sportswomen: A Qualitative Study

Geleneksel Annelik Ölçeği’nin Psikometrik Özellikleri: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

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