Effect of the level of general self-efficacy of primipara prior to delivery to one month after delivery towards her psychological characteristic

1 Corresponding author. Department of Nursing, School of Health Science, Niigata University of Health and Welfare. Shimami-cho, Niigata-shi 950-3198, Japan Email: [email protected] Tel./Fax.: 81-25-257-4562 2 Yokohama Asahi Central General Hospital 3 Hakodate Central General Hospital 4 School of Nursing, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine Abstract This is to study the effect of general selfefficacy of primipara in between the late period of pregnancy and one month after delivery, regarding depression, helplessness, subjective feelings of health, and motherly feeling of attainment, all of which will be referred to as psychological characteristic, and to discuss the nursing support for one month primipara. We obtained agreement for three question-answer sessions from 34 primiparas we traced during the period. We questioned them about their background, their general self-efficacy and their psychological characteristic which was compared with groups of high and low self efficacy. The obtained results indicated that the high group showed less helplessness after delivery relative to the low group, suggesting the possibility that the level of general self-efficacy influences their helplessness.