Exploring Maternal Resilience among Predominantly Low-Income and Minoritized Women.
Background: Research has increasingly explored maternal resilience or protective factors that enable women to achieve healthier maternal and child outcomes. However, it has not adequately examined maternal resilience using a culturally-relevant, socio-ecological lens or how it may be influenced by e...
| Publicado en: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 194 - 205 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=182974940&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 182974940 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10927875 N9J jtl: Maternal & Child Health Journal issn: 10927875 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2025 vid: 29 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 182974940 182461380 182974940 182974940 10.1007/s10995-025-04044-3 182974940 ppf: 194 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Exploring Maternal Resilience among Predominantly Low-Income and Minoritized Women. aug: au: Wakeel, Fathima Corcino-Davis, Yalitza Everman, Samara Manz, Patricia H. Ledis, Gabriella affil: https://ror.org/012afjb06 Department of Population Health, College of Health, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA sug: subj: Mothers Psychosocial Factors Minority Groups Psychosocial Factors Women Psychosocial Factors Poverty Hardiness Stress, Psychological Human Funding Source Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Semi-Structured Interview Grounded Theory Thematic Analysis Trauma Coping Support, Social Family Relations Qualitative Studies Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female ab: Background: Research has increasingly explored maternal resilience or protective factors that enable women to achieve healthier maternal and child outcomes. However, it has not adequately examined maternal resilience using a culturally-relevant, socio-ecological lens or how it may be influenced by early-life stressors and resources. The current study contributes to the literature on maternal resilience by qualitatively exploring the salient multi-level stressors and resources experienced over the lifecourse by predominantly low-income and minoritized women. Procedures: Data are from 19 women who were either adult mothers with children under 18 years of age living at home or reproductive-aged. Respondents completed semi-structured interviews, and grounded theory analyses identified themes related to stressors experienced and resilience resources utilized over the lifespan. Results: Four domains relating to maternal stress and resilience, including stressors (caregiving stress, family conflict, and deaths in the family), traumas (abandonment, domestic violence, child abuse, and substance misuse), coping mechanisms (positive mindset, faith, activities, and movement, healthy eating, self-regulation, and self-love/care), and supports (family, friends, spouses/partners, community members, and religious institutions), emerged from the data. Familial relationships were perceived as the most significant support as well as the biggest source of stress and trauma. Conclusions: As proposed by the socio-ecological framework, our findings suggest that components of maternal resilience exist at the individual (i.e., positive mindset, faith, self-regulation, self-love, and positive health behaviors), interpersonal (i.e., support from family, friends, and partner), and community (i.e., support from community members and religious organizations) levels. Significance: Though research has increasingly explored maternal resilience, the literature has not adequately examined it using a culturally-relevant, socio-ecological lens or how it may be influenced by early-life stressors and resources. This study contributes to the literature by exploring the salient stressors and resources experienced over the lifecourse by predominantly low-income and minoritized women. The findings suggest that, as proposed by the socio-ecological framework, maternal resilience components exist at the individual (positive mindset, faith, self-regulation, self-love, and positive health behaviors), interpersonal (support from family, friends, and partner), and community (support from community members and religious organizations) levels. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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