Psychosocial adaptation of pregnant women in the conditions of fitness activity

Abstract

The image of the modern woman over the past decades has undergone dramatic changes not only from the physical, aesthetic point of view, but also from the inside, in a psychosocial sense. Today, women do not want to concede anything to men: it is not surprising to see a female leader in all ranks of positions in various fields of science, culture, education, industry, and politics or not to mention sports field. This position of a woman in society imposes the corresponding requirements on her personal qualities and, which is important for her, her external and internal form. This implies a healthy lifestyle,1–4 a high level of efficiency, both mental and physical, strengthening, maintaining and keeping a woman’s health, her spiritual and moral condition, and therefore successful psychosocial adaptation to living conditions. However, not only the position in society makes a woman to be active and healthy. We should not forget that, regardless of the functions performed by a woman in the social environment, she performs one of the most important missions for the human race – the childbearing and reproductive one. This refers the female half of humanity to a certain group of people, which, in addition to awareness of the expressed sexual identity, understands its importance and necessity. This process contributes to the formation of social and group identity5–8 of a pregnant woman personality (the occurrence of the individual in various communities and awareness of unity with the group environment, in our case with other pregnant women). The future mother lives in her own world, which ends up in the process of carrying and the subsequent birth of the child. All thoughts of a pregnant woman are directed to her baby, to emotions associated with experiencing pregnancy, both positive, as enthusiastic estate, and negative, caused by feelings of anxiety and pressure for herself and the child also. In the given case, an important component of the wellbeing of an expectant mother is health not only physical, but, not least, mental and psychosocial well-being.5