The Relationship Between Pregnant Women' Emotional Intelligence and Fear of Childbirth, Readiness For Childbirth and Ways of Coping with Stress    
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Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Zümrüt YILAR ERKEK Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences
Dergi ISSN 2458-8938 Wos Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Emerging Sources Citation Index, TR DIZIN
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 01-2021
Cilt No 5
Sayı 2
Sayfalar 83 / 93
DOI Numarası 10.30621/jbachs.899477
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.30621/jbachs.899477
Özet
Aim: This study was carried out to determine the relationship between pregnant women's emotionalintelligence (EI) , Fear of Labor (FOC), Readiness for Labor (RFC), and ways of overcoming the stress.Material and Method: The research is descriptive-correlational. The study was carried out with 665pregnant women who were in the third trimester and admitted to the obstetrics and gynecology clinics inNothern Turkey. The data were collected using the Personal Information Form, Emotional IntelligenceAssessment Scale (EIAS), Prenatal Self-Evaluation Questionnaire (PSEQ) and Ways of CopingChecklist (WCCL). Percentage, mean ± standard deviation and median, Kolmogorov Smirnov test,Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression analysis were used to analyze the data.Results: In the study, the pregnant women's emotional intelligence (EI) score average was 126.30±28,the RFC average was 29.25±4.77 and the FOC average was 27.46±4.58. Self-Confident Approach,Optimistic Approach and Finding Social Support dimensions of the Stress Coping Styles Scale inPregnant Women were found to be above the average score, and the Desperate Approach andSubmissive Approach dimensions scores were below the average score. It was determined that therewas a weakly significant positive correlation between the total EI scores of the pregnant women and themean scores of RFC, FOC and coping with stress (p <0.001, r = 0.283), (p <0.001, r = 0.355), (p <0.001, r = 0.317).Conclusion: It was determined that there was a weakly significant positive correlation between thetotal EI scores of the pregnant women and the mean scores of RFC, FOC and overcoming the stressstyles. In this respect, it was concluded that the emotional intelligence levels of pregnant women needto be improved, their RFC and their FOC are low, and that they display a partially effective attitude intheir coping style with stress.
Anahtar Kelimeler
emotional intelligence, | readiness for labor, | midwife, | overcoming stress | Fear of labor,