Modeling of Pregnancy Motivation based on Quality of Life with the Mediation of Pregnancy Anxiety
Keywords:
Pregnancy motivation, quality of life, pregnancy anxietyAbstract
Objective:Motivation and tendency to become pregnant are considered to be important variables in the birth rate of children in any society, including Iranian society. Therefore, the aim of this study was modelling the pregnancy motivation based on quality of life with mediattion of pregnancy anxiety.
Methods and Materials: The present study was a descriptive research from type of correlation. The population of this study was women aged 20 to 45 years who had no children in District 6 of Tehran in 2024. The final sample of this study after removing missing questionnaires was 464 people who were selected by available sampling method. The research tools included the pregnancy motivation questionnaire (Miller, 1995), quality of life questionnaire (World Health Organization, 1996), and pregnancy anxiety questionnaire (Van den Bergh, 1990). The data of this research were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS23 and LISREL8.8 software.
Findings: The results of the present research showed that the model of pregnancy motivation based on quality of life with mediattion of pregnancy anxiety had a good fit. In this model, quality of life had a direct and negative effect on pregnancy anxiety, and a direct and positive effect on pregnancy motivation, and pregnancy anxiety had a direct and negative effect on pregnancy motivation (P<0.05). Also, quality of life with mediattion of pregnancy anxiety had no indirect and significant effect on pregnancy motivation (P>0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of this research, it can be said that improving quality of life by reducing pregnancy anxiety played an effective role in increasing pregnancy motivation.
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