The Relationship between Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, Attitude Toward Breastfeeding and Breastfeeding Behaviors in the First-time Teenage Postpartum Mothers
ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการรับรู้สมรรถนะของตนเอง ความรู้สึกมีคุณค่า และเจตคติต่อการเลี้ยงลูกด้วยนมแม่กับพฤติกรรมการเลี้ยงลูก ด้วยนมแม่ของมารดาวัยรุ่นหลังคลอดครรภ์แรก
Keywords:
Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem, Attitude Toward Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Behaviors, Teenage Postpartum MothersAbstract
ABSTRACT
This correlational descriptive research aimed to examine the relationship between
self-efficacy, self-esteem, attitude toward breastfeeding and breastfeeding behaviors in the first-time teenage postpartum mothers. The samples were 80 of the first-time teenage postpartum mothers at the Lerdsin Hospital. The samples were selected by purposive sampling. The research tools were questionnaires consisting of personal data, self-efficacy, self-esteem and attitude toward breastfeeding, and breastfeeding behaviors. The questionnaires, except personal data were validated by three experts. Its content validity index (CVI) of the questionnaires were equal value of .80 and its reliability were
.81, .85, .78 and .89, respectively. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results indicated that the first-time teenage postpartum mothers had the average scores of breastfeeding behaviors was at good level. (3.78) The self-efficacy, self-esteem in breastfeeding were statistically significant at the positive moderate relationship with breastfeeding behaviors at p<.01 (r = .335 and .306, respectively). However, the attitude toward breastfeeding was not related with breastfeeding behaviors.
This study suggests that the important keys were promoting self-efficacy and self-esteem in order to increase effective breastfeeding behaviors.
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