STRESS REDUCERS FOR MORNING SICKNESS AND LABOR PAIN

描述：本研究是关于各种抗逆性资源的研究。 这种文化的发展是为了在生殖过程中帮助女性。二 文化行为情结：晨吐和分娩 产痛耐受性。有待测试的各种假说表明，许多 与这些活动相关的习俗和行为就是抵抗。 旨在减轻女性生活压力的资源， 尤其是当她们成为准妈妈的时候。许多行为和做法 与晨吐有关，例如对食物的渴望、孤立、奇怪的要求 对于母亲，禁止做饭、触摸男性用具或 儿童，以及污染等概念被解释为 压抑女性和部分男性至上情结 传统社会和发展中社会。 相反，这里建议的情况正好相反：这些 将女性从日常生活中解脱出来并引发帮助的做法 他们周围的人在压力和压力下为女性提供社会支持 危险时刻，提供有规律的休息时间，并重新确认它们的价值 给他们周围的人。许多研究报告了分娩疼痛的差异 来自不同文化的妇女的宽容。在这里调查分娩疼痛 不是作为一种生理现象，而是作为一种体验，基本上 一种情感现象。有人建议，分娩的经历 疼痛与女性的地位有关(间接与慢性疼痛的量有关 压力)在不同的文化中，以及女性在 怀孕和分娩。女性获得的社会支持越多，就越大 将是他们对分娩痛苦的容忍度。这些假说和相互竞争的假说 使用跨文化方法对186个社会进行了测试 全世界。结果将适用于妇女的生殖健康 在世界范围内，特别是在传统国家和发展中国家，以及对许多 美国的移民人口。

DESCRIPTION: This research is about various stress resistance resources that cultures develop to assist women in the reproductive process. Two cultural behavior complexes are examined: morning sickness and childbirth labor pain tolerance. Various hypotheses to be tested suggest that many of the customs and behaviors associated with these activities are resistance resources whose purpose is to reduce stress in the lives of women, particularly as they become expectant mothers. Many behaviors and practices related to morning sickness, e.g. food cravings, isolation, bizarre requests of the mother, taboos against cooking, touching male implements, or children, and concepts of pollution, etc. have been interpreted as suppressing women and part of the complex of male supremacy found in traditional and developing societies. In contrast, it is suggested here that just the opposite occurs: these practices which take women out of their daily routine and trigger the help of those around them provide social supports for women during stressful and dangerous times, provide regular periods of rest, and re-affirm their worth to those around them. Many studies report differences in childbirth pain tolerance by women from different cultures. Labor pain is investigated here not as a physiological phenomenon, but as an experience which is basically an emotional phenomenon. It is suggested that the experience of childbirth pain is related to the status of women (and indirectly the amount of chronic stress) in different cultures, and to the social supports women have during pregnancy and childbirth. The more social supports women have, the greater will be their tolerance of labor pain. These and rival hypotheses are tested using the cross-cultural method on a sample of 186 societies worldwide. Results will be applicable to the reproductive health of women world wide, especially in traditional and developing countries, and to many immigrant populations in the United States.