Title: Adolescent mothers' adjustment to parenting.
Authors: Samuels, Valerie Jarvis; Stockdale, Dahlia F.
Abstract: Investigates the contextual factors of an adolescent mothers' perceptions of her adjustment to pregnancy and parenthood. Adolescence as a period of physical, cognitive and psychosocial changes and crises; Negative effects of teenage motherhood; Social support, self-esteem and perception of infant behavior as factors affecting the parenting role.
Subjects: UNITED States; TEENAGE mothers; PARENTHOOD & psychology
Publication: Journal of Adolescence, 1994, Vol 17, Issue 5, p427
ISSN: 0140-1971
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1006/jado.1994.1037

Adolescent mothers' adjustment to parenting.

Samuels, Valerie Jarvis; Stockdale, Dahlia F.