Bosma, L. (2022) Subjective well-being during the transition to motherhood: A comparative study between natives and immigrant women in the Netherlands. Pre-master thesis.
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Abstract
Driven by a perspective acknowledging the importance of a healthy and good transition to motherhood for mother and child, this research aims to examine the impact of migration on the subjective well-being (SWB) of women during their transition to motherhood. SWB in this study was defined as “… how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives (Western & Tomaszewski, 2016). Moreover, becoming a mother is a disruptive life event experienced as a time of development but also vulnerability. Many mothers experience mental health issues during this transition due to the increased responsibilities, hormonal imbalances, and required changes in lifestyle. This study aims to compare the SWB of immigrant women with the SWB of native women in the Netherlands. Quantitative research has been conducted by distributing questionnaires. The Mann-Whitney U test presented insignificant results indicating that it can be concluded that there is no evidence to suggest a difference in SWB between native and immigrant women in the Netherlands contradicting other literature. Hypothesising that an educational gradient might have impacted this outcome as the sample mainly included higher educated women. Nonetheless, correlation tests as well as binary logistic regression tests exhibit differences in the nature of the relationship between SWB during the transition to motherhood and being a native or immigrant woman. Conclusively, native women experience a decrease after pregnancy in SWB as also supported by other literature. This difference in SWB could not be statistically determined for immigrant women. This study aimed to gather insights into the differences and contribute to the currently limited literature existing about SWB of immigrant women during the transition to motherhood.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Pre-master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Rutigliano, R. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 12:50 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 12:50 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4037 |
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