Well-being of primigravidae: A Kolkata based correlational study

Pages: 110-114
Sayantani Bhattacharya (Department of Applied Psychology, Womens College Kolkata, West Bengal)
Sanjukta Das (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta Kolkata, West Bengal)

Pregnancy is a turning point in a women’s life that is marked by innumerable metamorphoses in different spheres of life. The effects of some of these are transitory and some are permanent. Such period of crisis needs intense review to get a clearer picture of this central milestone of a woman’s life. The present study was designed to assess the psychological conditions affecting the pregnancy period of primigravidae for which 46 primigravidae were reviewed on factors like anxiety, depression, happiness, different factors of personality and general well being, twice once in their first trimester and again in their third trimester of pregnancy. For the analyses of the data product moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analyses was done with the help of SPSS package. The findings revealed happiness as the most positive factor of general well-being in both the trimester of pregnancies.