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IMPACT OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN

. Zainab Manzoor , Sayed Shahbal , Madiha Hussain , Amna Khan , Fatimah Adnan Sadiq Almousa5 , Hawra Nasser Alsaad , Ayat Abdulhadi Ali Alabdullah , Fawziah Alotaibi and Amal Hamoud Alamrani


Abstract

Aims: The present study targeted to inspect perceived social support as a predictor of psychological well-being and emotional stability among pregnant women. Role of demographic factors including age, education, husband education, number of children, number of pregnancies, residence, and family system.

Method: The present study was established on a cross-sectional survey research design. The sample of the present study consisted of the pregnant woman (N=240) who belongs to different family systems in joint and nuclear different residential areas that include rural and urban of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Results: Findings indicated that perceived social support has a positive correlation with psychological well-being and negative but significant relation with emotional stability because scales have using mostly items are reveres high on neuroticism that’s why emotional stability has negative relation with others. Results show the significant mean difference in study variables with respect to demographic factors.

Conclusions: one of the hypotheses were supported by the findings and one were not supported by study. Correlation analysis indicated that social support was significantly correlated with psychological well-being and   negatively but significantly related with emotional stability among pregnant women.

Keywords: perceived social support, psychological well-being, and emotional stability

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