| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系 === 107 === This study attempts to understand the motherhood experience of unintended pregnancy on female adults, including the factors that influence the decision of marriage and fertility, the motherhood experience after unintended pregnancy, as well as the influence on female adults’ motherhood experience through marital relationship and original family relationship. The data has been collected from four female adults, who had the unintended pregnancy experience in their adulthood, with semi-structured in-depth interviews. Narrative analysis has been used to analyze the data. The research findings are as following:
1. Fertility decision of unintended pregnancy on female adults are influenced by the factors below: 1) external factors: physical and mental health, financial status, and career planning. 2) internal factors: the willingness of being a mother, the ethical values toward life and abortion. 3) relationship factors: the partners’ attitude toward unintended pregnancy and social support from others. Besides, overcoming the obstacles in the intimate relationship while pregnancy, increasing the involvement of partners on the intimate relationship and childcaring readiness, and the social prejudice toward the non-marital pregnant females and their original families, all influence the marital decision of unintended pregnant females.
2. The cultural scripts of the ideal mother are established by the interactive experience with caregivers in childhood and social desirability on the role of mother, the parental identity is also germinating. However, the low childcare readiness of unintended pregnant females often relates to low level of satisfaction of childcaring and the emotion of frustration and pressure. To decrease the negative emotion during motherhood, females often either enhance their childcaring techniques or their scripts of the ideal mother, and the adjusting experience changes the perspective toward their childhood experience again. Moreover, the support from families and friends are also indispensable for unintended pregnant females’ adjustment during motherhood.
3. The traditional gender division of labor is found on the unintended pregnant couples after pregnancy, the marriage stabilities are associated with the stabilities before getting marry. Furthermore, the partners’ evaluation of unintended pregnant women impact females’ perceptions of being supported or not, and the perceptions influent the motherhood identity on females, causing conflicts in marriage, however, these unsupported perceptions are not related to childcaring withdraw on females. Last but not least, unintended pregnant females are getting closer to their original family due to the unintended pregnancy, and the motherhood experience is passed down by their mothers.
4. According to the study results above, the concrete suggestions are provided to further studies, the government, the unintended pregnant female adults, and the counselors.
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