THE RELATIONSHIP OF LIFE-MEANING ORIENTATIONS AND EMOTIONAL STATE IN MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE PERIOD OF ADAPTATION TO PARENTHOOD

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to an increase in the number of emotional and affective disorders in young parents during the period of adaptation to parenthood. If we consider the expectation of a child and the period of adaptation to the role of a parent as a crisis situation when young parents face the uncertainty of the future, with a change in their status, it seems important to consider the role of life orientations in socio-psychological adaptation to parenthood. The subject of the study is the relationship of life–meaning orientations and emotional state in men and women during the period of socio-psychological adaptation to parenthood. The aim is to identify the relationship between the emotional state of men and women during pregnancy and in the period after the birth of a child with the characteristics of the meaningfulness of life. As a result of the study, it was revealed that there is a relationship between the emotional state and the degree of meaningfulness of life in men and women during the period of adaptation to the role of a parent. In the future, based on the results of the study, a correctional program will be compiled for the prevention of emotional and affective disorders in young parents. The novelty of this study is that for the first time, changes in the characteristics of the meaningfulness of life that occur in young parents during the period of adaptation to parenthood were revealed. The revealed interrelations of the parameters of the value-semantic sphere with the components of anxiety make it possible to make a corrective program to reduce the level of anxiety after the birth of a child through work with the value-semantic sphere.