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Stevenson, C. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2438-6425, Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Finell, E. and Paajanen, P.,
2021.
Development of first-time mothers' sense of shared identity and integration with other mothers in their neighbourhood.
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
ISSN 1099-1298
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Abstract
Mothers' social integration with other mothers in the same residential area has been shown to be beneficial for their health and well-being. The socio-psychological resources afforded by other mothers aid the transition to motherhood. However, much less is known about the processes whereby mothers integrate with other local mothers. Therefore, we analysed first-time mothers’ experiences of social integration with other mothers in the same neighbourhood. Through three waves of semi-structured interviews, we followed eight Finnish first-time mothers' everyday lives for a year. The narrative analysis of these longitudinal interviews revealed three story types – social integration, social exclusion and social disconnection – that depicted mothers' different experiences of integration with other local mothers. The perceived similarity of experiences, goals and interests related to motherhood enhanced the development of a shared sense of identity and supported integration with other local mothers. We discuss our findings in relation to the social identity model of identity change (SIMIC).
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Alternative Title: | New mothers' narratives of social integration [running title] | ||||||
| Publication Title: | Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology | ||||||
| Creators: | Stevenson, C., Seppälä, T., Riikonen, R., Finell, E. and Paajanen, P. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||
| Date: | 14 December 2021 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1099-1298 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 02 Dec 2021 10:51 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:34 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45032 |
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