Modeling of Pregnancy Motivation based on Family Communication Patterns with the Mediation of Pregnancy Anxiety
Keywords:
Pregnancy Motivation, Family communication patterns, 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 modeling the pregnancy motivation based on family communication patterns with mediation of pregnancy anxiety.
Methodology: 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), revised communication patterns questionnaire (Crenshaw et al., 2016), 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 family communication patterns with mediation of pregnancy anxiety had a good fit. In this model, family communication patterns had a direct and positive effect on pregnancy anxiety, and a direct and negative effect on pregnancy motivation, and pregnancy anxiety had a direct and negative effect on pregnancy motivation (P<0.05). Also, family communication patterns with mediation 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 family communication patterns and reducing pregnancy anxiety played an effective role in increasing pregnancy motivation.
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