“SOCIAL SUPPORT AND SUBJECTIVE WELFARE IN TEENAGERS, YOUNG ADULTS AND LATE ADULTS"
Social Support, Subjective Welfare, Pregnancy.
There are moments considered critical during the woman's life cycle: adolescence, pregnancy and climacteric. Authors report that the emotional basis of the adolescent mother is influenced by the social support received, which consequently ends up reflecting on the child's care and development. Regarding late pregnancy, there is a worldwide increase in the occurrence of this phenomenon. Subjective Well-Being, on the other hand, can have direct impacts on pregnancy and on the formation of the affective bond in the dyad. Thus, the objective was to analyze the relationships between scores of the constructs of social support and subjective well-being in pregnant adolescents, young adults and late adults. Sequential multimethod research, carried out in three studies. 1) Integrative review of the Social Support and Subjective Well-being constructs. 2) Investigate the relationship between scores of social support and subjective well-being and of these between sociodemographic, gestational and obstetric variables. 3) Understand the importance of social support and subjective well-being in the experience of the gestational period among the investigated public. The number was 366 subjects for Study II and 6 subjects in Study III. Adolescent puerperal women, young adults and late hospitalized, hospitalized due to childbirth and / or puerperium, were included after 12 hours postpartum. Postpartum women who had children with fetal malformation, fetal death, prematurity and the fact of having become pregnant using some method of artificial fertilization were excluded. Instruments were: Structured questionnaire, Social Support Scale (EAS) and Subjective Wellbeing Scale (EBES). SPSS for descriptive and inferential statistics, with a significant level of 5% for the alpha error, the null hypothesis being rejected when p <0.05. The data showed high EAS scores with values above 80 points, with a caveat for the group of late pregnant women material (76.05), emotional (78.80) and information (77.85), ratified by the Kruskal- Wallis. About EBES there are approximate averages in dimensions among adolescents, young and late adults, with no statistically significant difference. There was a positive correlation between the EBES positive affect dimension and the EAS. As a possible explanation for the fact, it is justified that for the group of adolescents and late pregnant women in this study, social support is revealed as an important basis for promoting subjective well-being and its dimensions. And deepening in this theoretical perspective, there are studies that relate moderate / high BES scores to better emotional regulation. In this sense, the individual's ability to regulate his emotions, provides a better adaptive behavior and is connected to the development of social skills, as well as, in the maintenance of healthy relationships. Thus contributing to a better quality of life for people.