Dialogical Self and the Changing Body During the Transition to Motherhood. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Uriko, Kristiina
• Is Part Of: Journal of constructivist psychology. Volume 32:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 221
• Page End: 235
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Personal construct theory -- Periodicals; Constructivism (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 150.1985
• DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2018.1472048
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-0537

Abstract

Abstract : This article explores the transition to first-time motherhood and focuses on the analysis of integration in the self-system of a new I-position – the maternal one. This dialogical interchange between dynamically related I-positions (I-as-pregnant and I-as-mother) is the arena where the personal affective core of the self and the sociocultural background of social role demands are intertwined. During pregnancy and childbirth, the I-as-pregnant position becomes transformed into the lasting I-as-mother I-position. This process is seen as an activity of the subject to organize general dialogical relations within the self under conditions of bodily transformations which result from fetal development.