Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Family Nursing
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Oxley, G. M.
Right arrow Articles by Weekes, D. P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Oxley, G. M.
Right arrow Articles by Weekes, D. P.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Experiences of Pregnant African American Adolescents: Meanings, Perception, Appraisal, and Coping

Gozil M. Oxley, R.N., Ph.D.

California State University, Fresno

Delois P. Weekes, R.N., D.N.Sc.

Boston College

This article is an exploratory descriptive investigation of the meanings given by pregnant African American adolescents to the experience of being pregnant. Twenty-one participants between the ages of 13 and 19 were recruited from two community clinics and two private physicians'offices in California. Data were collected through in-depth interviews that elicited information regarding the experience of pregnancy, changes experienced during pregnancy, and strategies used to manage these changes. The interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the grounded theory technique of constant comparative analysis. The two major themes that emerged from the data regarding the pregnancy experience were pregnancy disclosing and role transforming. These themes were related to the extent of difficulty experienced during pregnancy. Coping strategies aimed at ameliorating stress during pregnancy included conceptualizing support as need fulfillment. Identified needs were met by the adolescents' boyfriends and mothers.

Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 3, No. 2, 167-188 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/107484079700300205
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Qual Health ResHome page
K. K. Martyn and S. A. Hutchinson
Low-Income African American Adolescents who Avoid Pregnancy: Tough Girls who Rewrite Negative Scripts
Qual Health Res, March 1, 2001; 11(2): 238 - 256.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 J Transcult NursHome page
I. A. Nwoga
Take-A-Village (TAV): A Metaphorical Model for Health Promotion
J Transcult Nurs, October 1, 2000; 11(4): 246 - 253.
[Abstract] [PDF]