Preliminary Study of Hope in Adolescents Who Experience Unwanted Pregnancies

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hope, unwanted pregnancy, adolescents, losing hope

Abstract

In Indonesian unwanted pregnancies in adolescents has been a popular phenomenon and it happens mostly because of premarital sexual problem. Premarital sexual adolescents among Indonesian communities are unacceptable acts both according to social norm and Indonesian culture. Mostly in Indonesian community usually reacted to both those who do premarital sexual behavior and unwanted pregnancies with social consequences such as being expelled from school and exiled from the community even more to those who experience unwanted pregnancies. Negative social stigma related to unwanted premarital pregnancy worsens the psychological experience of the subject. Young women and teenage-girls who experience unwanted pregnancy often experience depression, hopelessness, helplessness, and suicidal thought. This paper is a small part of a thesis that investigate lived experiences of women who have gone through social and psychological difficulties due to teenage unwanted pregnancy. The thesis investigates how the women strive for hope and move on with their lives. As part of the literature review of the thesis, this article unpacks what have known about psychological effects of teenage unwanted pregnancy and what the literature says about the dynamic of hope.

Copyright

© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Devi Sumarno
AU  - Hani Yulindrasari
AU  - Rahayu Ginintasasi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/07
TI  - Preliminary Study of Hope in Adolescents Who Experience Unwanted Pregnancies
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 43
EP  - 46
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.077
ID  - Sumarno2020
ER  -