The Effect of Social Support on Pregnancy-Related Anxiety in First Trimester Expecting Mothers

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.085How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social support, pregnancy-related anxiety, expecting mothers, first trimester

Abstract

During pregnancy, a mother will experience physical, hormonal, and social changes that affect the mother’s psychology and emotion. When the mother’s psychological and emotional state changes, the baby’s development will be affected. Expecting mothers in the first trimester are prone to anxiety, one of which is pregnancy-related anxiety which will be further discussed in this study. Anxiety in expecting mothers can be suppressed by providing social support to expecting mothers. In this study, the authors wanted to further investigate the effect of social support on pregnancy-related anxiety. This study aims to determine whether or not social support has an effect on pregnancy-related anxiety in first trimester expecting mothers. This study used non-experimental quantitative method with a snowball sampling technique to select participants. Total first trimester expecting mothers who filled out this questionnaire were 184 participants who lived in Jakarta and were 18-30 years old. The results of the linear regression test show a significance value of 0.034 <0.05. It can be concluded that there is a significant effect of social support on pregnancy-related anxiety. With the regression equation of Y = 2.453 - 0.081X and the amount of influence as much as 2.5%, the rest is influenced by other factors not examined in this study. The regression coefficient value in the regression equation is negative, indicating that social support has a negative effect on pregnancy-related anxiety.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Caroline Zefanya
AU  - Denrich Suryadi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - The Effect of Social Support on Pregnancy-Related Anxiety in First Trimester Expecting Mothers
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 540
EP  - 547
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.085
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.085
ID  - Zefanya2021
ER  -