Self-esteem of single pregnant women in a maternity group home program: a secondary data analysis

dc.contributor.authorGeres, Joan Elizabeth
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeFerguson, Lyn (Social Work) Scruby, Lynn (Nursing)en
dc.contributor.supervisorFrankel, Sid (Social Work)en
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-08T20:16:04Z
dc.date.available2010-04-08T20:16:04Z
dc.date.issued2010-04-08T20:16:04Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocial Worken_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Social Work (M.S.W.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the relationships between self-esteem and socio-economic factors and characteristics of maternity group home program participation. Self-esteem is used sometimes as the independent variable and sometimes as the dependent variable in this study. A sample of 268 women was used representing the data available in an administrative database on women admitted to the Villa Rosa program for the period from May 1998 to February 2009, after removing cases with too much of the self-esteem measure missing. Methods of analysis included; paired samples t-tests, independent samples t-tests, analysis of variance, repeated measures analysis of variance, standard multiple regression, sequential multiple regression, and multinomial logistic regression. Attempts were made to control for the influence of the several factors. The main findings of the research included: 1) Ethnicity was not found to be significantly related to discharge self-esteem. 2) Self-esteem of residents was found to be significantly healthier at discharge from the program than at intake to the program. 3) Self-esteem was not found to be significantly different between women who participated in a post-natal semi-independent living component of the program and those who did not when controlling for control variables. When the control variable of length of time in the program was removed self-esteem was found to be significantly healthier for women who participated in the post-natal semi-independent living component of the program than those who did not. 4) A significant difference was not found between the discharge self-esteem of women who reported as living with a disability at intake, and women who did not. 5) Self-esteem at discharge was found to be healthier with an increased number of days spent at Villa Rosa. 6) Less healthy intake self-esteem was associated with plans not to breastfeed. 7) More supportive attitudes of social support network as measured at intake were shown to be linked to healthier self-esteem at discharge. 8) Experiences of abuse were not shown to be significantly related to discharge self-esteem. Both support received from the significant findings, and a lack of support from insignificant findings, were found for several self-esteem theories.en
dc.description.noteMay 2010en
dc.format.extent8191839 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/3925
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectself-esteemen
dc.subjectpregnancyen
dc.subjectmaternity group homeen
dc.subjectadolescent pregnancyen
dc.subjectteen pregnancyen
dc.subjectsingle parenten
dc.subjectethnicityen
dc.subjectbreastfeedingen
dc.subjectsocial supporten
dc.subjectabuseen
dc.subjectVilla Rosaen
dc.subjectadolescent parentsen
dc.subjectRosenberg Self-Esteem Scaleen
dc.subjectself-esteem theoriesen
dc.titleSelf-esteem of single pregnant women in a maternity group home program: a secondary data analysisen
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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