TY - JOUR AU - Yaskevych, Olha PY - 2019/05/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF THE GOOD MOTHER AS IT IS CONSTRUCTED BY FEMALE STUDENTS JF - PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL JA - Psychological journal VL - 5 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.31108/1.2019.3.23.11 UR - https://apsijournal.com/index.php/psyjournal/article/view/546 SP - 168-179 AB - <p>The article is designed to investigate the influence of educational technologies (classes for pregnant women for example) on the processes of constructing the “good enough mothering” concept. Empirical studies dedicated to the problems of maternal identity and psychological readiness to motherhood, show that each mother being engaged in day-to-day care, uses subjective ideas about maternal role which are deep-rooted in her internalized experience of her own mother-daughter relations. These ideas direct her to choose specific consonant pedagogical ideology of mothering and translate its values about the intensity of mother-baby emotional bonds in concrete behavioral care practices.</p><p>It is shown that all participants of our study view the emotional sensitivity to the baby as the central maternal function and explain maternal role using this idea. But there are different ways of understanding what maternal sensitivity as a concept really means: they depict it in terms of the optimal balance of physical and emotional closeness and distance in relation to the baby.&nbsp;</p><p>It is described three types of ideas about the good mothering among young female students, which are connected with prominent nowadays discourses of early education: the idea of deep-involved (symbiotic) kangaroo-mother, the idea of engaged partner-mother and the idea of distant stand-alone manager-mother.&nbsp;</p><p>Our study asserts that these ideas aren’t constructed in rational way, but are created from implicit experiential knowledge about relationships and their complexity presented as one’s personal competence for empathy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -