Psychophysical Stress Of Pregnant Women In Relation To Type Of Family And Involvement In Tapovan (GARBH SANSKAR) Centre Of Children’s University

Abstract

Pregnancy is the most important phase of every woman’s lifespan. During this stage the physical, mental, emotional and social changes and the activity also has direct effect on the unborn child. So that the purpose of the present study is to investigate some of the factors affecting on Psychophysical stress of the pregnant women. Null hypothesis was framed regarding to the pregnant women from the involved and non-involved point of view of Tapovan (Garbh sanskar) Centre of children’s university and from type of family point of view regarding to joint and nuclear family. A non-probability’s purposive sampling method was used to select 120 pregnant women from entire Gujarat. Collection of data was carried out with the help of psychophysical stress Scale for pregnant women. The research tool for Psychophysical stress was measured by shanu mahehwari and Guajarati version by Y.A Jogasan and S. R somay. For analysis of data ‘F – Test’ was used. The finding of the study showed that there was a significant difference of Psychophysical stress in the context of Involvement in Tapovan (garbh sanskar) Centre of Pregnant women.