Psychological Readiness for Motherhood in Young Female Orphans

Egorova M.A.
PhD in Education, Professor, Department of Pedagogical Psychology n.a. Professor V.A. Guruzhapov, Faculty of Psychology of Education, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0716-6858
e-mail: egorovama@mgppu.ru

Mironova S.I.
PhD student at the Chair of Pedagogical Psychology of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, medical psychologist at the Magadan regional addiction clinic

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The paper explores some aspects of potential motherhood in young females that were brought up in orphanages. The aim of the study was to reveal the specifics of psychological readiness to enter motherhood in young female orphans. The research outcomes shed some light on the young females' attitudes towards their mothers and towards themselves as future mothers, on their value orientations and operational experience in motherhood, on their subjective readiness to become mothers as early as in adolescence. The study involved both orphan females and females living with fam- ilies from two Russian regions, Magadan oblast and Moscow.

Keywords: motherhood deviation, young female orphans, institutional upbring- ing, psychology of motherhood, psychological readiness for motherhood.

Column: Experimental Research

For Reference

Egorova M.A., Mironova S.I. Psychological Readiness for Motherhood in Young Female Orphans. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2013. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 69–81. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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