BECOMING ADOLESCENT AND BEING MOTHER: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE POST PARTUM

Authors

  • Dafne Paiva Rodrigues
  • Francisco Rafael de Araújo Rodrigues
  • Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva
  • Maria Salete Bessa Jorge
  • Léa Dias Gomes Pimentel Vasconcelos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16166

Keywords:

Identificação social, Mães, Adolescente, Período pós-parto, Social identification, Mothers, Adolescent, Postpartum period, Identificación sociale, Madres, Período de posparto

Abstract

The objective was to apprehend the social representations of adolescents in the post partum period about
being a mother in adolescence. This study was based on the Theory of Social Representation of Moscovici, and was
developed in a public maternity hospital in the municipality of Fortaleza-CE with 25 adolescents in the post partum period,
through semi-structured interviews. The construction of social representations about motherhood in adolescence shows
contradictory opinions. The most visible contradictions are: being a mother and being a mother in adolescence, in which
the first shall be designed as a virtue, while the second is stereotyped as prison, through the difficulties faced in developing
the motherhood role. The conclusion is that the maternity in adolescence shows the importance of educational programs
on sexual health, focusing on the intersectoriality between schools, health services and society to develop mechanisms
to identify and intervene with the teenagers at high risk for early motherhood .

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Rodrigues, D. P., Rodrigues, F. R. de A., da Silva, L. M. S., Jorge, M. S. B., & Vasconcelos, L. D. G. P. (2009). BECOMING ADOLESCENT AND BEING MOTHER: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE POST PARTUM. Cogitare Enfermagem, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16166

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2009)

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